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...fighting men" if Quemoy and Matsu are attacked, "would not wait until the situation was in extremis" before going in. One reason: the Communists have made clear that the offshore islands are but the first step to Formosa. Though the U.S. would obviously not fight over possession of the tiniest islands, "perhaps awash part of the time," it had drawn its no-trespassing line to include the ones that counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Newport Warning | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Virgin Islands, one of the tiniest (132 sq. mi.) of U.S. territories, President Eisenhower last week nominated a new Governor and fellow Republican, John David Merwin. He is the youngest (36) and the first native-born islander of the eight civil Governors named since the U.S. bought the Virgins from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGIN ISLANDS: Native Governor | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

Kept free from the tiniest taint; And when you let gentlemen pay for your rooms, The inference is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

Corporals & Snow Tires. Today Chairman Firestone is busy diversifying. Once tires were 95% of the business; now they are 60%. The world's biggest producer of natural and synthetic rubber (1,000,000 Ibs. daily), Firestone makes several thousand rubber products, from the tiniest vacuum seal to 4-ft. snow tires for arctic tractors, plus truck-wheel rims, jet-engine parts, Corporal missiles, refrigerators, food mixers, golf clubs, electric clocks, plastic luggage, textile yarns and thousands of other items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Wheels for the World | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...rampage in the Middle East, fanning the kind of war best suited to upset our alliances and our own people-a war from which we cannot escape involvement and yet so primitive as to give us no chance of using massive retaliation, or even our tiniest atomic tactical weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KHRUSHCHEV'S LIES NEW SOVIET LOW | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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