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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last held a good defensive position. Chiang had an estimated 300,000 troops on the island, small air and naval forces to garrison and guard it, and the Communists lacked an air force and navy to help them hurdle the moat that surrounds the island. But Chiang could not count on the loyalty of Formosa's people, disgusted by Nationalist carpetbaggers who rushed to Formosa after the war's end. Probably the greatest threat facing the Nationalists on Formosa was Red fifth-column tactics within the island stronghold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Last Stand | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Bill Lindemood, John Shea, Preston Clement, John Landers, Charles Heller, Glen Reem, Jim Knight, and Roy Elfast will fire for the Crimson at the University rifle range. Only the scores of the highest five men will count...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rifle Squad Will Fire Against Six Opponents | 12/17/1949 | See Source »

...Yard, Weld North defeated Mower Hall by a 40 to 18 score and clinched the League flag. Matthews North conquered Grays by a 24 to 21 count in winning the American League championship. The two teams will meet this afternoon at 5 p.m. to decide the inter-league championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Defeat Eliot House Five; Adams Triumphs | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Pilot Claude, Copilot Lewis, their flight engineer and 15 of the Aztec's 41 passengers escaped from the white-hot pyre. When the wreckage had cooled, an American Airlines ground crewman stood sobbing as he kept count, in a little black notebook, of the bodies carried from the blackened metal. Total: 28. Three days later the heads of eleven major U.S. airlines were feted in Chicago at a luncheon (scheduled long before the crash) to honor commercial aviation's record for safety. Their statistics proved that IQ49, even including the Dallas crash, could still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: The Price You Pay | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Football players seeking part-time jobs can count on preferential treatment from four local hotels. Officials of these hotels explained yesterday they have decided on this policy because they want the Crimson team to win so that people will come from out of town to see it play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Local Hotels Offer Job Preference to Football Men | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

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