Word: unload
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could limit itself to local tactical action aimed at stopping the invasion of Quemoy and Matsu. Both Quemoy and Matsu lie so close offshore that U.S. naval and air operations would be severely restricted in effectiveness. Fleets of Red junks assembled and launched by night might unload their troops before U.S. sea and air forces could stop them. Even in the face of this sort of U.S. intervention, the Communists might...
...Deluge. What came was the crash of Dienbienphu. During that decisive battle, Diem discerned that his time to serve might be at hand. He quit the monastery and moved into a garret in Paris. The French, in part because they needed someone on whom to unload catastrophe, offered Diem the Viet Nam premiership, with their first acceptable promise of independence. On June 15, 1954, Ngo Dinh Diem took the job and headed back to Saigon. "We don't know where we're going," said one of his aides, contemplating chaos, "but the captain is reliable and our boat...
...consumed by slow and inefficient ground handling." Only a small number of the major U.S. airports have separate air-freight terminals; most lines process their freight through passenger terminals or makeshift sheds. Furthermore, most cargo planes flying today are not suited to the job, are hard to load and unload, often have high maintenance costs...
...time he pulled out 350 carloads of laborers at Joppa, kept the motorcade touring for two days around the plant. Then Bateman pulled out his pipefitters over squabbles about who should unload pipe from trucks. In 29 months, work on the Joppa plant was stopped more than 40 times. Ebasco fell so far behind that the Bechtel Corporation took over its contract (TIME, Oct. 4). The delays added $58 million to the cost of the plant...
...cook," cried little Red Father Lenin in the first flush of revolution, "can rule the state." But instead the state soon ruled the women, liberating them from the "old household slavery" and giving them equal rights with men only so that they could also carry hods, puddle steel and unload barges. "The hardest-worked sex in the country and perhaps in the world," cried appalled Feminist Perle Mesta last year after seeing her sisters under the shawl in Russia. In 37 years no woman ever sat in the Soviet Politburo. Ana Pauker, onetime Rumanian Foreign Minister...