Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea this week, with the U.S. defense position breached and envelopment threatened from the flanks, the prospect that had been clearly visible last fortnight became even more imminent: a further series of withdrawals from the Kum River to a relatively short perimeter around the port of Pusan...
First Phase: fight a delaying action toward Pusan, an excellent port only 150 miles from Japan, across waters controlled by the U.S. Navy and Air Force. Establish a perimeter around Pusan with both flanks resting on the sea (see map). The ideal beachhead would be small enough to be held by three or four well-armed U.S. divisions plus regrouped South Korean troops (see below), yet large enough to protect Allied activities in & around the port from enemy artillery fire. Barring Russia's intervention, the U.S and U.N. forces would have control of the air and sea, and ought...
...Taejon and the rail line were lost, the enemy had a chance to squeeze the defenders into a perimeter around the port of Pusan. But the picture was not totally dark. The U.S. forces had seized unqualified command of the air, would hold it unless Russia directly intervened. The South Korean forces, chewed up and demoralized by the enemy's first onslaught, were regrouping behind the U.S. screen. East of the Osan-Chonan sector, where they had only Red infantry to fight against, the South Koreans were beginning to achieve some success. The arrival at week...
...obligingly made public this decision, thus undermining the Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...
...acted swiftly to guarantee adequate stockpiles of synthetic rubber. At the urging of rubber manufacturers, the White House ordered back into production three of the Government's twelve idle wartime synthetic-rubber plants: a butyl plant at Baton Rouge, La., a butadine plant at Houston and the Port Neches, Texas, plant which makes general-purpose rubber. This would boost synthetic-rubber production by about 20% and bring total production to about 500,000 tons a year, enough to handle all civilian and military needs, barring global war. But it would also use up heavy supplies of benzene, a component...