Word: maile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Red China began baiting its bids for diplomatic recognition with the glittering prospect of trade, some Canadians have shown themselves surprisingly eager to swallow bait, hook and all. Most outspoken of the lot is Toronto's Globe and Mail, whose publisher. Oakley Dalgleish. recently returned from a tour of the Chinese mainland burbling with admiration for the Peking regime. Last week U.S. diplomats wondered if the pro-Peking line of Dalgleish and his fellow apologists might not be swinging the government in the same direction...
After the Chinese Reds began shelling the Nationalist-held island of Quemoy, the Globe and Mail renewed its demands to hand over Quemoy, extend diplomatic recognition and welcome the Chinese Communists into the U.N. The Globe and Mail reprinted three editorials in ads in the New York Times, drew a freshet of letters from both sides of the border, including an approving note in the Times from John Carter Vincent, left-leaning onetime U.S. diplomat who was fired from the State Department...
...itself, the Globe and Mail could be regarded as a single shrill voice. More alarming is the possibility that the Ottawa government, prodded by Canadian friends of Red China, might agree, thus shattering the Western front against U.N. recognition of the Reds. It is an open secret in Washington that Prime Minister Diefenbaker has pressed President Eisenhower for a softer policy toward Red China. The State Department was also jolted by Diefenbaker's hint that Canada might take the initiative to turn the Quemoy crisis over...
...Finally, when a giveaway house was at stake, Mignone decided that the only way to beat the game was to break the rules. He waited for the correct bid to be announced over the air, then faked a couple of postcards and tried to bribe two 16-year-old mail sorters (with $3,000 each) to slip the doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take it on the lam. A warning shot fired over his head ricocheted...
...plane-like gadget, offered to train all comers to fly at $85 a head (v. $25 to $50 per hour for in-the-air flight instruction). But no one paid much attention to the trainer until 1934, when the Army Air Corps was suddenly called on to carry air mail. It found its pilots, trained to fly by watching the ground, not up to the job. After close to a dozen were killed within the first week, the Air Corps hastily began to buy Link trainers to simulate instrument-flying conditions...