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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians took from China about $2 billion worth of Japanese-built heavy industrial equipment-rolling mills, hearth furnaces, synthetic gasoline plants, steel plants, etc. Last January, Peking announced that the Russians had begun to replace some of the machinery. At about the same time, a 1951 production target rate was announced; it will probably bring the Manchurian output to about 50% of the rate during the Japanese occupation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: INSIDE RED CHINA | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

When Parliament reassembles, Winston Churchill will undoubtedly return to the attack. A juicy target: the April 10 budget. Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell has warned that the budget news will be less pleasant than he had hoped because of British rearmament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Recess | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...cockpit of the F-94, a wealth of information crackles in on the headsets of the pilot and his radarman. Ground radars are tracking the target and feeding their reports to a central station (location secret). Back come crisp directions for the local G.C.I. (Ground Control Intercept) to relay to the planes aloft. For a time there is nothing for the crew to do but fly the directed course at 600 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Interceptor Mission | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...First target of the Crime Commission, also scheduled for official confirmation tomorrow, is expected to be the notorious "point spread" or "curve" system in blue book marking, said to be rife in many College Departments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Beats Kefauver to Draw In Plenary Probe of Local Vice | 3/31/1951 | See Source »

...Target Unknown (Universal-International) models itself on one of World War II's most entertaining U.S. Army training films, Enemy Interrogation. Like the original, it shows how a guileful German intelligence might have plucked scraps of information from many captured U.S. flyers and pieced them into a forecast of Allied plans that the captives themselves knew nothing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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