Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Estimates are that Quemoy can hold out past Christmas unless the Reds drastically step up their bombardment. Vice Admiral Wallace M. Beakley, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, declared last week that with the start of the monsoon season, the Reds have missed any chance to invade Quemoy this year. But the monsoon also hampers the effort to supply the island. And to the weary, frustrated defenders of Quemoy, even the arrival of all the alligators, oil drums, food cases and medicine packages in the Far East would not be a completely effective answer to the relentless fire from...
...Nehru's India, religious excesses are embarrassing relics of the past. "Hari Singh will be tried for murder-he is not insane," said a police officer curtly...
Both Britain and Israel are long inhabited lands whose soil is steeped in legend and salted with ancient relics. In both, the drama of the past waits only the educated spade of the archaeologist...
...banks that, in turn, can use them as collateral to borrow from the Federal Reserve to make additional loans, thus increase credit all around. However the Treasury is hopeful that most of the securities will later be bought by institutions and corporations as they usually have been in the past, dry up the new inflationary credit...
Until recently, said Secretary Anderson, the Government has been able to sell huge amounts of its securities to Government trust funds such as Social Security old-age and unemployment-compensation funds. "Over the past ten years," he said, "these funds added $20 billion to their holdings of Government securities as their reserves accumulated. Currently, however, the flow is being reversed; benefits and other payments are exceeding receipts, and there will be a decline in holdings this year." Now that the Government trust funds are reducing their holdings, Secretary Anderson said that the nation's private savings institutions should take...