Word: seventh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press-conference question about open Chinese Communist threats to "liberate" Formosa (TIME, Aug. 23) drew from President Eisenhower last week the slow-spoken comment that if the Reds tried to invade the Nationalist island, they would have to "run over" the U.S. Seventh Fleet...
Also, Admiral Felix Stump, U.S. Navy commander in chief in the Pacific, turned up in Taipei, having inspected the Nationalist fleet and Nationalist-held Tachen Island. Asked if the Seventh Fleet's role would be purely defensive, the admiral said: "No commander likes to sit back and wait. Sometimes you have to go out and start shooting...
...personality, the people whose real business it is to catch Communists quietly went on catching Communists. On a street corner in Denver, FBI agents collared four big wheels of the Colorado and Utah machines. A fifth was picked up at a Denver airport, a sixth in Pueblo, and a seventh, who had underground contacts with the Colorado group, was nabbed in Los Angeles. Last week's coups brought the total of arrests under the Smith Act (conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government by force) to 116 since 1948; already convicted...
Kibitzing Outer Bankers decided that Canipe was pixilated (their advice to him: go home), and for a while it seemed as if they were right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon the two 'dozers and an escort of trucks were moving down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore...
...highly competitive textile industry, there are few business secrets. But nobody was prepared for two surprises pulled last week by Burlington Mills Corp., biggest U.S. producer of synthetic textiles. Burlington first startled the industry by announcing that it was buying control of Pacific Mills (about seventh-ranking producer of cottons and woolens). Other companies wanted Pacific, and one, M. Lowenstein & Sons, was actively bidding for it. Burlington moved in, raised the bid. By laying out $24.6 million, Burlington, in a day and a half, picked up 494,500 of Pacific's 959,052 shares, last week got control...