Word: day
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Day after the launching, nine C-119 Flying Boxcars, fitted with gadgets designed to snag the parachute in midair, took off from Hawaii's Hickam Air Force Base to hover over the target area. Two Navy recovery ships patrolled the ocean below in case none of the Boxcars managed to hook the parachute. Like its predecessors, the Discoverer VIII capsule was designed to float, flash lights and beam directional radio signals to guide the search...
...point out, all this does not justify well-meant outcries about "millions of starving people," nor is there as yet any sign that the world's capacity to produce food is diminishing. Though FAO statistics show that between 7,000 and 9,000 people die of malnutrition every day, actual famine nowadays occurs only in isolated pockets. The annual increase in total world food production is running just ahead (about 2%) of the increase in population...
...West can best help. By supplying others with capital, the West may be able to help them achieve more speedily what it took Japan 90 years to accomplish-the transition from a purely agricultural nation to an industrial-and-agricultural nation whose citizens can now clearly foresee the day when they will all enjoy an adequate diet...
Malraux also decreed: let there be circuses-and staged the most dazzling Bastille Day celebration France had ever seen. In fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has the privilege of seeing all new performances first; so, in "deference to General de Gaulle," the critics should hold up their first-night reviews until he could get to the theater on the second night. The grand opening of the opera fortnight ago, where Maria Callas had once complained...
...with hard work, and one of the largest outlays of U.S. money abroad-more than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...