Word: manchurian
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...bomb the MIGs' Manchurian bases and prevent the buildup-as General Douglas MacArthur had suggested? Vandenberg had given a startling answer at the MacArthur hearings last spring. The answer: the U.S. did not have enough planes to bomb Manchurian bases and still keep its strategic striking force intact to deliver the atomic bomb-"the sole deterrent to war up to this time"; U.S. industry was not producing enough bombers to replace losses in such a bombing campaign...
This disease was first described by Japanese army doctors in 1939, when their troops came down with it in Manchuria (hence its popular name, "Manchurian fever"). The death rate then ran as high as 30%. No U.S. soldier is known to have contracted the disease in World War II or during the first year of war in Korea. Last June it broke out among forward troops who had been living on the ground...
...Located on the Manchurian border...
...truce talks fail, Reischauer thinks the U.N. would be justified in studying the feasibility of the MacArthur proposals for 1) use of Nationalist troops in Korea; 2) blockade of the Chinese mainland; 3) bombing of Manchurian and Chinese bases; 4) invasion of the Chinese mainland...
...Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Anacostia Park, the two young-old lotus plants are still thriving. But until they are due to bloom, in about five years, Dr. Harding will not know just what sort of lotus grew in the Manchurian peat bog 1,000 years...