Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past fortnight Nationalist and U.S. intelligence sources have detected signs of two additional new airfields being started on the Fukien coast-near Amoy, the mainland port opposite Quemoy. They bring to five the total of Communist airfields recently built or abuilding on the mainland across from Formosa. Once completed and equipped, the new fields will give the Chinese Communists air striking power over the Nationalist-held offshore islands and Formosa. U.S. intelligence knows that the Chinese Communists have shifted their bomber forces southward into Fomrosa range; U.S. reconnaissance shows that the Communists have amassed heavy military equipment along the China...
...factories. He hastily assembled the Central Committee and announced a "critical inquiry" of Communist union policy. In an attempt to check the rebellion with a show of strength, the Communists picked Genoa, where their power in the unions is almost undisputed, and succeeded in all but closing down the port...
...crews at the airport. But, the British contended, the possibility of sabotage was "extremely remote." Only three survivors, all Indians, were fished out of the sea. Engineer A. S. Karnik, taken aboard the British frigate Dampier, gave the first authentic explanation of the crash: a hydraulic fire in the port wing. The plane broke into three pieces when it hit the sea. This sounded more like a common accident than sabotage. In their first broadcast, long before any survivors had been picked up, the Communists had said that the plane exploded in mid-air-the same kind of wild report...
...that it forms a single complex, something like the Ruhr. South Lanes, as Britons call it, is the most populous region of Britain outside London. Its people are a nubbly mixture of English yeomen, Welsh shepherds and Irish peasants, congealed into Lancastrians by the Industrial Revolution. With its deepwater port of Liverpool (pop. 790,000), its damp climate and plentiful coal, Lancashire was for a century the cotton clothier of half the world. Lancashire men invented the first machines of mass production (the Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price...
...turn, this vision of spiritual (rather than merely social) brotherhood did not lead Davenport toward mysticism. Right reason is still man's supreme weapon: "The Thomist doctrine, that Reason is the handmaiden of Faith, has never really been overthrown." Where does such faith-with-reason lead America? Daven port did not live long enough to give more than clues to an answer. One clue lies in his feeling that the conflict between old-fashioned American individualism and the modern pressures for the welfare state need not (perhaps should not) be resolved, but kept in equilibrium: that this very balance...