Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomatic dispatches from U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and press reports from U.S. correspondents in Moscow added up to a tentative conclusion: the Russians had decided to move their "volunteers" at least into Syria and possibly into Egypt, to stake out the Red army's first foothold in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence added solid evidence that complete Red air force units had already flown over Turkey and taken up positions on three airfields in Syria...
...been lost to the Communists. When he talked of defending Formosa . . . he must have forgotten that . . . President Truman [first] sent the Seventh Fleet to defend Formosa . . . [His] passing reference to Suez gave no hint of the awesome fact that within the past few months, Russia has gained the foothold in the Middle East she has sought for centuries...
...URANIUM DEAL will give Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. foothold in Millionaire Charles Steen's mining (Mi Vida mine) and milling (Uranium Reduction Co.) empire. After year of maneuvering, Odium bought 30% interest in $8,000,000 uranium mill being built by Steen's Uranium Reduction Co. at Moab, Utah. In return for share in mill, Odium will cancel plans for his own mill near by at La Sal, Utah...
...coexistence charter at Bandung "quite convincing" sounded to Communists like their kind of neutralist−a soldier, a conspirator with a smoldering sense of anticolonial vengeance. By offering arms to Nasser, the Communists could strike hard at the Baghdad Pact. They could also win a foothold at last in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...attack upon Riesel is more than an isolated incident. It is one of the few noticeable signs of the attempt of gangsters to gain, and in some cases, to enlarge a foothold in the American labor movement. Arrest of the attacker, as a result, would do little toward solving the basic problem. What is required is a thorough and determined attempt to get the racketeers out of the unions--an attempt which must be supported by the AFL-CIO, federal, State and local authorities, by business management, and by continued pressure from the press and public. As Riesel urged from...