Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough. A good day it was for yachting, a reporter in Taipei sardonically observed. There were plenty of surface craft in the sea off tiny (little more than a half square mile) Yikiang Island, but they were not yachts. The Chinese Communists were successfully invading Yikiang -their first combat seizure of a Nationalist-held island since...
...with average prices up 24% in 1954 and almost every Swiss stock climbing to new alltime highs. Nestlé Alimentana Co. (food and chocolate) was up 20% from 1953; Sulzer Machine Works up 35%; Switzerland's Ciba chemical company, helped by the new drug "Serpasil," used to combat nervous disorders and high blood pressure, jumped from $650 a share...
Tremendous technical advances have been made since World War II, but the nation's soldiers, sailors and airmen are still dissatisfied with much of their combat equipment. To spur on U.S. industrialists, scientists and ordinary basement inventors, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week issued its periodic list of new gadgets and gimmicks needed by the armed forces. Sample items...
...people of Asia . . . need to be liberated from hunger, disease and ignorance. We must combat Communism by raising the standard of living of these people, and this means that these countries must be industrialized. Industrialization depends upon capital, technical assistance, and trade. In other words, American capital must be invested, technical assistance must be given, and our tariff rates must be lowered...
Caution & Hope. As the year began, every businessman knew that the dip in business towards the end of 1953 had raised a great question for 1954: How well could the Administration, with its growing set of economic tools, help industry to combat the drop? The test came at a crucial time for an Administration determined to balance the budget and get government out of business. With the Korean war ended, huge cuts in defense spending were due. Farm income had been falling for two years, and the Administration intended to dump the rigid-support prices that had lessened the slide...