Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hypothesis that is very difficult to speculate upon. The basic concept . . . would be that Formosa should not be allowed to fall into Red hands ... I believe if it does, that you have not only lost every thing we gained in the Pacific war, but you have rolled our strategic frontier back from the little island groups that defend us now, all the way to the western coast...
Along the stretch of road leading from the Hungarian border post of Rajka to the Austrian frontier station at Nickelsdorf walked a man carrying a suitcase and a traveling bag. He was pale, with deep shadows under his eyes; every few moments, he paused to catch his breath. An official U.S. car drove up, and out jumped a U.S. diplomat. "How are you, Bob?" cried Hal Ekern of the U.S. High Commissioner's staff in Austria. "Let's go, let's get out of here...
...emphasis on the frontier between two Red satellites? Western authorities believe that East Germans were pressing for a return from Poland of former German territory beyond the Oder and Neisse Rivers; this sentiment smoldered underground, undermined Red rule, disturbed the Communist regimes in neighboring Poland and Czechoslovakia. Bierut's visit to Berlin was apparently designed to dispel the reports of ugly ill feeling between the satellites. But to Westerners it looked as though the comrades did protest too much...
Industrial Frontier. In 1950 alone, U.S. companies invested $167 million in Canadian subsidiaries; some 30 new subsidiaries were established, bringing the total to more than 2,200. In addition, U.S. citizens invested $363 million in Canadian-owned enterprises last year. Altogether, U.S. interests in Canada today come to nearly $7 billion-33% of all U.S. foreign investments. Americans directly control at least 25% of Canadian manufacturing industry. And they own major chunks of most of the Dominion's greatest industrial mammoths. Since 1944 for example, U.S. ownership of voting stock in the Canadian Pacific Railway has climbed from...
...encourages U.S. capital. Provincial governments vie with each other in offering attractive tax concessions. Canada's labor force is first-rate, its wage scales are lower, its raw materials often cheaper, its markets growing. Most important, however, U.S. business has recognized that Canada is still a great industrial frontier. Says General Motors President Charles E. Wilson (whose company is currently spending $30 million to expand its Canadian operations): "This is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth waiting for further development . . . G.M. is bullish on Canada...