Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However the U.S. tried to minimize its significance, the presence of Chou En-lai (pronounced roughly Joe 'N. Lie) at Geneva symbolized a hard reality. Communist China was determined enough to demand a major role in world affairs, strong enough to get it. In the brief span of four years, Mao Tse-tung and his coterie of Communists had found the means to stalemate the military forces of the world's greatest power on the battlefields of Korea. They had, after rushing to aggression's service in North Korea, replaced Russia as North Korea's occupier...
...warrior, so often called a war monger, seemed further intent on reversing his reputation. At a time when the tactical situation seemed to demand a show of determination in the face of the confident Communists at Geneva, Sir Winston's head seemed a dream with thoughts of compromise, concessions and soft words. Speaking last week to the Primrose League.* Churchill entered an unexpected personal plea for the establishment of "links" with Russia "which, in spite of all distractions and perils and contradictions, would convince the Russian people and the Soviet government that we wish them peace, happiness and ever...
...While unemployment in Japan is still low, the gloomy foreign-trade picture (1953 deficit: $313 million) has been darkened by a 20% decrease in spending by U.S. security forces. Belgium and Luxembourg, who depend mainly on exports of steel and capital goods, are feeling the pinch of lower world demand and prices...
Yaleman Adams. 56. onetime vice president of U.S. Steel, took over as president of Pittsburgh Steel four years ago, when the steel industry was just coming out of a slight slump. Pittsburgh's earnings had been spotty. When demand was high, Pittsburgh could sell all the semifinished steel (mostly ingots) it produced; other companies needed it for fabricating. But when the industry was running at 70% of capacity, Pittsburgh dropped to about 50%, near the break-even point; other steelmakers had enough of their own steel for fabricating needs. Adams' solution was to "get into the finishing business...
...skull-littered desk, lectured for birth control, euthanasia, sterilization of the mentally and physically defective; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. Hooton's low opinion of Homo sapiens ("Gadgets and machines are getting better and better while men are getting worse and worse") once brought a demand upon the Massachusetts legislature for a probe of his "inhuman" teachings...