Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wild, sleepless days, the men of the 24th Division fought a series of desperate delaying actions designed to slow the Red flood and borrow time for the Eighth Army to unload at Pusan and establish a firm line of defense. Each hour of delay, each blunting skirmish that forced the Communists to detour or deploy, was a small triumph, paid in full with American lives. Four times on the bloody road from Seoul the G.I.s halted the Reds briefly, upsetting their timetable and flattening their warhead...
Both sides agreed last spring to let the Sudanese choose for themselves. It was easier said than done. For some months, a seven-man electoral commission, supervised by an Indian chairman and including one American, labored to parcel out 97 crude constituencies, establish direct voting procedures -for "sophisticated tribes" and indirect methods for the primitives. The commission arranged for the election, in three stages, of a 97-man House of Representatives and a 50-man Senate, 20 of whose members will be nominees of the British Governor General. Sudan's first Parliament will decide the nation's future...
...testimonial dinner for United Steelworkers' Boss Dave McDonald, U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless said last week: "Earlier in this century, labor fought an all-out war to establish the right of American workers to organize and to bargain collectively . . . That war ended more than 20 years ago, and labor won it decisively . . . I happen to think that labor's victory in that cause was a fine thing for America...
Kraut said yesterday, "The Glee Club and the Choral Society have always attempted, both under Doc (Davison) and Woody (Woodworth) to establish the educational importance of serious choral music in the college and community life of America, and for such a purpose this trip might be well conceived...
...demands the Free Territory and Italy calls for a winner-take-all plebiscite, a plebiscite the Italians would almost certainly win. Any lasting solution, of course, must be worked out at a meeting of the countries concerned. The United States and Britain, it becomes more clear, will have to establish heir own policy before full-scale bargaining can begin. Such pre-conference agreements must meet certain basic requirements: Triestc must be made a free port, the Zones must not be so completely separated that the trade both sectors require is impossible. And these negotiations must save the prestige of both...