Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three hours of marching, the 15,-ooo paraders massed in front of the National Palace. On the balcony, flanking President Jacobo Arbenz, were the warm-up speakers, Labor Chieftain Victor Manuel Gutierrez and Peasant Boss Leonardo Castillo Flores. both Reds. They plugged solidarity with Viet Minh and similar causes. Arbenz took over from there: ¶On the H-bomb: all the tests must be halted, atomic weapons must be banned. ¶On the recent U.S. note asking a $15 million indemnity to the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. for 233,973 acres of expropriated banana lands: "Blackmail...
...Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, Road Racer Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping...
...five days & nights, the Communists have gained one-half of the northeast and a clawhold in the northwest-at a fearful price of 7,000 dead, some 10,-ooo wounded and 80 prisoners (on top of 9,000 casualties in Phase One). This is more than half Giap's original striking force. The dangling Communist dead are beginning to putrefy on the wire, and French planes drop leaflets in the enemy lines: "Remember Giap, the Butcher of Dienbienphu." The French have lost perhaps 2,000. But Dienbienphu holds...
...Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...fuel bill for a nine-hour 6-47 mission is $11,OOO...