Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the peninsula, up north, the Chinese Reds had been doing some overwater work of their own. The U.S. Navy, after sitting on the details for four days, told how the Chinese had captured three small islands off the mouth of the Yalu. The islands had been occupied last spring by South Korean marines, and the enemy could guess that they were being used as radar and weather stations, and might become springboards for guerrilla activity against the mainland...
...step was taken by the RFC. It lent $57 million, its biggest loan since World War II, to the White Pine Copper Co., a subsidiary of Boston's Copper Range Co. The money will be used to develop its holdings in the Upper Michigan peninsula,* which are estimated to have reserves of 309,660,000 tons of ore and a potential copper output of 35,000 tons a year. Said Copper Range President Morris LaCroix, who has been after an RFC loan for 13 months: "Now this great national asset will be put to work...
KAMCHATKA PENINSULA: nine divisions (two infantry, one marine, one paratroop, five airborne); 300 planes, naval units including a submarine flotilla at the major naval base of Petropavlovsk...
...Russian military boots.
Items: Peninsula.
From the Spinach Fields. On a six-mile peninsula in the Delaware River, a mile below Trenton, the largest steelworks ever built at one time is rising in the rural countryside. It is Big Steel's new Fairless Works. It will cost $400 million. Giant earthmovers are clawing across 3,800 acres of bean fields and tomato patches; 6,000 construction workers are laying 20 miles of paved roads and 75 miles of railroad. Huge shovels scoop out the river basin to dock ore ships that will come from Venezuela...