Word: colossuses
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Dollars & Pounds. On hand to greet the guests last week was a beet-faced, ramrod-straight 58-year-old named Sir Eric Bowater. Having already built a small family business into a colossus, Sir Eric decided seven years ago that he could better serve his many U.S. customers (biggest: Scripps-Howard) with a U.S. mill. He decided on Calhoun because it has plenty of water, good transportation and access to vast supplies of southern pine, which has a growth cycle of only 25 years, v. 75 years for northern spruce...
...ship deals with Russia and China. Moreover, the Japanese are doing a really thriving trade with Formosa-$123 million last year-which they might lose if they flirted too earnestly with the Reds. And finally, despite openly voiced misgivings about Western defeats in Asia, the Japanese know that the colossus across the Yellow Sea is their enemy, and that they need the colossus across the Pacific...
...context of the news from Geneva, Chiang hardly needed to describe the colossus that had grown up on the Chinese mainland since the Nationalist flight to Formosa 4½ years ago. But the Gimo did remind the world that his own war with the Chinese Reds has never ended.* He called the existence and swelling power of Red China a "calamity of mankind." How to deal with it? Chiang's solution is also Formosa's obsession: "Recovery of the mainland." For this, he pleaded for arms and moral support from the free world. "We have confidence...
...hard on the American colossus not to be allowed one mistake, but it is a tribute to all that its tremendous power has come to mean to the free world. If there is some anxiety over the exact circumstances in which the United States would drop its first atom bomb in the next war it is because American genius and skill have now given that bomb-as Bikini has shown this month-the force of 'five hundred Hiroshimas' ... If the battle for . . . reasonable tolerance now being fought in the United States engages us strongly it is because...
...delegates to the Tenth Inter-American Conference in Caracas last week doubted that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could put through the U.S. program against Communism in the Americas. But in pressing his cause, Dulles ran smack into the age-old Latin American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick...