Word: formosae
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...fullback heading for the goal line. He is not much of a rough & tumble debater, but his set speeches are well written, forcefully delivered. Because of his consistent bathe for more U.S. aid to Chiang Kaishek, his detractors have fitted him with a label: "The Senator from Formosa...
...Korean war, some 450 Western-flag vessels have made 2,000 trips to Chinese ports. Exactly what they carried is anybody's guess. There have been some flagrant examples, however, of traffic in strategic materials. Several ships, after delivering U.S. cargoes of Mutual Security Agency material to Formosa, on later voyages transported oil to China. The most damaging series of shipments is the traffic in natural rubber now going on between Ceylon and China. In return for rice, Ceylon has agreed to send the Chinese 50,000 tons of rubber annually for five years...
...Bureau of Reclamation: Wilbur App Dexheimer, 52, veteran (25 years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator Jess Larson...
...Asserted to the world, and especially to Formosa and Japan, that the U.S. would not again tolerate Communist aggression...
...pressed by its European allies to step down from its "deeds, not words" position. Churchill firmly believes that the West should seek talks with Moscow on the highest level. Just as firmly he believes it is time for Britain, France and the U.S. to settle their policy on Korea, Formosa and Communist China...