Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quoting and agreeing with an article in LIFE by John Foster Dulles ("certainly, he is no isolationist"), Taft pointed out that NATO guards only 500 miles of the Soviet dominion's 20,000 miles of frontier with the free world. "In fact, our leaders have become the new isolationists. They would abandon most of Europe and most of Asia to Russia, and adopt a purely defensive policy which has no hope of bringing freedom to millions behind the Iron Curtain...
...North Dakota, whose saucerlike Williston Basin contains immense oil treasures, the Big Sky country's cattle and wheat economy is getting ready for a tremendous upsurge of industry. Men in the area foresee pipelines, refineries and plants turning out "petrochemicals" (TIME, May 12), oil's new frontier...
...comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol Naish as pioneer railroad men, and Zasu Pitts as a fluttery frontier belle...
...Force needs only the consent of Congress and the Administration to set in motion its well-trained cadres, the plane designs, the waiting aircraft plants. "Wherever we are, our frontier is above our heads," General Vandenberg once told his fellow airmen at Maxwell Field, "and it extends above and over any aggressor who dares break the peace. There are no barriers between us and any enemy, and the hours that separate us are few. Our job is to be ready to meet an aggressor, at any time, in any strength...
Recently he remarked: "We here in Austria can literally look across the Iron Curtain. We see how for miles behind the frontier they have razed every village. And we tell each other: Poldi, Freddi, Pepperl, we say, if this is the People's Democracy, then we are better off with what we have, even-" and he pointed to himself with a grin "-even if the government is no good...