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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Elder, who had expressed hope for accomodations for 500 families, has greeted the Program's plan with "much good hope" as a start toward alleviating the problem which, as he says, "demands drastic remedies and quick ones."DEAN ELDER...
...will others (see FOREIGN NEWS). The argument, as the British put it, was that it was "a vexatious anomaly" that Britain could not sell to Communist China what it could sell to Communist Russia, and that such inequity should be corrected. The net effect was that Britain would soon start shipping trucks, tractors, locomotives, small generators and about 200 other items direct to Red China, thereby helping to build up Mao Tse-tung's hardware-hungry state...
...Republican Chamber of Legislative Horrors (pre-World War II division), nothing quite brings the shivers to a veteran G.O.P. Congressman like the memory of the party vote against the fortification of Guam.* When the Japanese seized Guam, the No-voters had to start explaining, and those who survived have been explaining ever since. Last week, as the Eisenhower Administration's $38 billion defense budget came up for floor action in the House, the Republicans remembered Guam very well-but the Democrats lined themselves up in a party-line vote against the President's defense budget that might haunt...
Early Years. Son of a Texas cotton and dairy farmer, Bob Anderson worked his way through two years of college, then taught high school in home-town Burleson (pop. 800), and coached an unbeaten football team on the side, until he could save enough to start himself through the University of Texas law school. During his final year of law school, Democrat Anderson campaigned for the state legislature on weekends, was elected the day he graduated (with the best scholastic record in the school's history...
...master campaign. During the U.S. torpedo runs, he put his men to work frantically rearming the planes for a counterstrike against the U.S. carriers. The flight decks were packed with armed, fueled planes as the big ships began turning into the wind. At 1024 the order to start launching came down from Akagi's bridge by voice tube, and the air officer flapped a white flag. At that instant, slanting and howling down at 70° out of light clouds, the SBD Dauntless dive bombers of Enterprise and Yorktown bore down undetected and unopposed. "Helldivers!" screamed a lookout...