Word: inchon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months later the assault on Inchon bore out the editors' mid-July estimate of the situation and kicked off the third phase...
...five-man team of TIME Inc. reporters and photographers covered Operation Chromite at Inchon. Like most other newsmen, they had a tough time of it. Correspondent James Bell, who went in with the third assault wave on Inchon and was present at the taking of Kimpo airdrome, cracked up in a jeep accident (see PRESS) and is now in a Tokyo hospital. Tokyo Bureau Chief Frank Gibney, one of the first four U.S. correspondents to hit the beach at Wolmi Island with the marines, went along with them across the Han River and into Seoul before returning to Tokyo...
...Koreans seemed to want to do anything to please. Old men ran out with South Korean flags. Women came forward with their hands up and smiling. The civilians of Inchon combed the city for known Communists, led U.S. troops to their hideouts, pointed out enemy soldiers who tried to sneak away with civilian clothes over their uniforms...
...most of the time. She ranges such a wide beat that her New York office seldom knows where she is. This week, after days of suspiciously un-Higgins-like silence, they learned from her first delayed dispatch that Maggie Higgins had landed with the fifth wave of marines at Inchon and stayed with them under mortar and rifle fire and grenades until the beachhead was secured. She was making good an earlier promise: "I walked out of Seoul, and I want to walk back...
With one big rush, the stock market last week wiped out the last of its losses caused by the Korean war-and then some. In the closing session of the week, the landing at Inchon pushed it still higher in a fever of trading that reached 820,000 shares in the last hour. Trading had soared past 2,000,000 shares for three successive days, and boosted the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks by 5.04 points...