Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quite Clear." Only days before, said Nehru, 38 Indian soldiers had fought with 300 Chinese invaders and barely escaped encirclement. An Indian plane had tried to drop munitions to the surrounded men but failed. That incident had occurred at Longju in India's North-East Frontier Agency (popularly called NEFA). It was not the first one. A thousand miles to the west, in the Ladakh district of Kashmir, Chinese Communists have repeatedly ambushed and captured isolated Indian patrols, said Nehru. As recently as July an Indian detachment (an officer and five men) was taken prisoner by Chinese troops that...
...were to be trusted, all the hardship of the communes had produced only a 35% gain in grain, not the 102% Peking had boasted of, and there had been a 28% increase in cotton, not 104%. The false claims had to be confessed so that the planners could sharply drop their targets for next year. The party's communiqué put the blame for the false figures on "lack of experience in assessing and calculating output," and gloomily blamed the lowered output on bad weather, and the fact that reaping, threshing and storing "were all done in a somewhat...
...main criterion for selecting a dumping spot is depth, with 1,000 fathoms (6,000 ft.) as a minimum. MSTS will drop its cargoes at points about 200 miles due east of Cape Cod, 105 miles south-southeast of Cape Henry, Va., 120 miles southeast of Sandy Hook, N.J., 240 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 150 miles west of San Francisco. Diving tests have shown that most of the hot material remains sealed off in the containers, but some leaks out, might yet show up in seafood. Oceanographers and marine biologists are studying the effects wrought on the radioactive...
Reflecting the increased pace of the new boom, the Labor Department reported last week that in mid-July, employment reached an alltime record of 67,594,000, rising by 252,000 over June. What pleased Government economists most was the 110,000 drop in long-term unemployment (15 weeks or more) to 817,000 in July...
Though there was talk of a "peace scare," Wall Street agreed that the market was due for a technical correction after a headlong rise from last spring, saw the break as an opportunity for earnings and dividends to catch up with soaring prices. The drop was accelerated by news of the exotic fuel cutback (see Aviation) and poor earnings in aircraft companies...