Word: east
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nervous just sitting around," grumbled a striking steelworker in East Chicago, Ind. last week. "I wish I could grab the guys on both sides of that table and bang their heads together...
...Yemenite dancers walked ashore with their luggage on their heads, and pursers and stewards from the U.S.S. Constitution helped 983 home-coming travelers tote their baggage ashore. Perishable goods were in danger of rotting on the piers and in ships' holds, and U.S. grain exports for the Far East, South America and Europe piled up at dockside at the rate of 11 million bushels weekly...
...Bonn for a privately organized German-American conference on East West tensions, Acheson fired the most critical shots to date against President Eisenhower for going even so far as to discuss the possibility of a Berlin settlement with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said Acheson: "All the trouble in Berlin is caused by Mr. Khrushchev. The situation there could endure for the indefinite future. But he decided to upset the arrangement a year ago. I would tell Mr. Khrushchev that I would not discuss Berlin. Let's talk about other matters, but there is nothing to talk about there...
...Western skies temporarily looked clearer, the storm clouds were still piling up in the East. In New Delhi last week the Indian government put out a map showing in detail the extensive areas on its side of the Himalayas (including some 6,000 sq. mi. of Pakistan) that the Red Chinese claim and, in some cases, have seized by force of arms. The eight SEATO nations declared anew their determination to aid the kingdom of Laos against invasion from Communist North Viet Nam, and in Laos itself members of the U.N. fact-finding mission trying to get into the frontier...
...Line. In the 22 years since it was born in the caves of Yenan, Hsinhua has grown into a formidable propaganda machine. Its radio-teletype network throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America gets regular transmissions from Peking. It has 31 bureaus in Red China; outside, in addition to the big Hong Kong office, it staffs bureaus in most Western European capitals, in Moscow, Damascus, New Delhi, Baghdad, Cairo, Havana-an estimated...