Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians continued intransigent, the U.S. had another possible course. It could use its meager armored forces (see cut) to blast a land route to Berlin. But that would mean that the U.S. would abandon its present morally unassailable position. As matters stood, the air lift over the blockade could go on until the Russians stopped it-but only...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...
...Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans and the land...
...Minutes Each? The patients flocked in to register. Under previous schemes, 22,200,000 low-income people were en titled to free care; they were joined now by 14,500,000 more, a total of 36,700,000 out of a population of 41,460,000 in Eng land and Wales. (Separate but similar schemes started at the same time in Scot land and Northern Ireland.) Said one gleeful patient: "I've been paying my doctor ten shillings sixpence ($2.10) per visit twice a week. Now the fellow has to attend me for 15 bob a year...
...sale was another triumph for Liberty's special brand of mass production plus carnival barking. For weeks desperate couples had besieged Sales Manager Joseph Chernus, a serious, slight ex-phonograph salesman and ex-G.I. But he stalled them off, told them to come back on land-rush...