Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of U.S. declaration Sir Anthony had been waiting for, and working for. To some State Department officials, the President's mention of a U.N.-sponsored cease-fire meant only that "you've got to show sympathy to the idea of stopping the shooting," and they confidently counted on Chou En-lai to reject...
...make mention of the walks in the Yard has come to be, in the course of College generations, as bad form as to talk about the weather. But though we realize this we would fain make a suggestion. Apparently it is impossible to keep the walks dry, by subsurface drainage. But a certain amount of labor, applied promptly, in proper quantity, and with intelligence, would often take its place...
...resolution to "clearly and publicly establish the authority of the President to use U.S. forces for the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores," and to show a wholehearted U.S. determination to that end. Commenting that this authority would cover "closely related localities," he singled out for special mention the island of Quemoy, only five miles off the Chinese mainland, which Chiang Kai-shek considers vital to the defense of Formosa. The message carefully avoided any reference to future use of the Chiang-held territory to liberate the mainland, and just as carefully said that the situation was too critical...
...President did mention the Upper Colorado Basin project in his State of the Union speech. He went even farther than Watkins had hoped: last week, in his budget message, the President recommended that $5,000,000 be appropriated to get engineering started...
...protectionist arguments is that tariffs are needed to safeguard vital defense industries. Said Percy: "Our industry points with alarm to the fact that because of foreign competition there are perhaps no more than 2,000 optical workers in the U.S. This may be true; but the industry fails to mention the fact that in the process of learning the optical grinding business, we have radically changed and improved the methods used in Germany and other countries for hundreds of years. As a result, the present unit productivity of our 2,000 workers is probably greater than the productivity...