Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussions focused on Indo-China and the defense of Southeast Asia. Anthony Eden did not apologize for the backhanded insults he dealt Foster Dulles in his House of Commons speech, but he did say he regretted having raised a storm of dissent in the U.S. by proposing a Far Eastern Locarno. Eden said that he had no idea the proposals would evoke such sharp dissent in the U.S.-a statement that was hard to take at face value...
Russia had warned that it "will be forced to take appropriate measures for safeguarding the security of Soviet Merchant ships," presumably hinting that it might provide naval escorts for them in Far Eastern waters. After thinking things over, Nationalist China this week announced that it had decided to confiscate the tanker's cargo but to return the ship itself...
...confident that a decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge. Lee's army followed, and during the next two days in fierce fighting...
...Panther Valley mines in eastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. was in trouble. Last year it lost $3,400,000; this year the losses increased because of rising costs and a dwindling market. On May 3 the company, coalmining subsidiary of Lehigh Coal & Navigation and fourth biggest U.S. hard-coal producer, shut down the mines, threw 4,000 miners out of work. Later it offered to reopen the mines if the United Mine Workers' locals would agree to "work harder, produce more." Since there are almost no other jobs in the valley, five locals voted to go back...
...Eastern Industries. Microwave beams count traffic coming in from all directions and transmit the total to a central brain at the intersection, which automatically switches lights to speed up the heaviest flow. Price: about $1,000 per intersection, plus installation...