Word: korean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom, the problems rest on two statistics. World consumption of coffee is increasing an average 500,000 bags a year; production, ballooned by a worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction...
Last week she likened the Government's latest sale of bonds to a "gigantic sale of I.O.U.s," ticked off future bond issues planned for the next few months, and concluded: "It means that the greatest wave of cash borrowing by our Treasury since the Korean war and the greatest wave of borrowing ever in peacetime is about to sweep our land ... It means that the easy money era which was kicked off this past November will keep running through this period. All borrowers-including you -will be benefited by this...
...general ordered Lieut. Colonel George Flint, Canadian chairman of the Israeli-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission, to go to the spot, bring about a cease-fire and arrange for the evacuation of the wounded. Colonel Flint, a tough, wiry Korean war veteran, had been badly wounded by an exploding mine on Mount Scopus two years before. He set forth immediately for the Arab village of Issawiya, on the Jordanian sector of Mount Scopus. Checking fast, he learned that four members of an Israeli police patrol lay wounded at the edge of the Israeli zone where they had been...
...coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen Pope, 29, was an ex-Air Force first lieutenant, who won the D.F.C. in the Korean war, became a crack pilot with Claire Chennault's Formosa-based Civil Air Transport, flew transports over Dien-bienphu in the Indo-China...
From across the oceans and from space overhead came the clanking sounds of history on the move. To the U.S., it was a week of challenge unmatched since the days of the Korean war. More important. it was a week when the U.S. knew the challenges for what they were and began to frame the proper responses...