Word: regionals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Accepting the invitation of the United States National Security Council to participate in discussions to end hostilities in the Formosa region...
...Gettysburg with Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (Secretary John Foster Dulles was at his island retreat in Lake Ontario.) By nightfall, the State Department had issued a reply: "The United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world. In the Formosa region we have an ally in the Free Republic of China and, of course, the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions concerning the area...
Nations that most need economic aid have already recognized the necessity for accepting Western help. In fact, the first conclusions issued by the 29 nations at the recent Bandung conference was "the urgency of promoting economic development in the Asian-African region." President Eisenhower also singled out for special comment "the vast are of free Asia," because, as he said, "the immediate threats to world security" are now centered there...
...first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope in the one region of prosperous Britain that is visibly and chronically depressed. "Dark, Satanic Mills." Lancashire is not the tourists' England. Forty miles wide by 60 miles long, it is bisected by the river Ribble into a northern rural section that merges into Wordsworth's Lake District, and a southern industrial coalfield...
...three commissioners who run the Tennessee Valley Authority face a tough problem. The seven-state TVA region is growing so fast that it needs $150 million a year in new power facilities. But only half of that expansion can be financed by TVA's revenues. And Congress, which has refused for two years to appropriate the difference, seems unlikely to change its mind even though it is now a Democratic Congress. Last week the commissioners submitted to Congress a plan that would 1) get them the additional money needed for expansion, and 2) put TVA on the same operating...