Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the day before the Sixth Fleet sailed, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conferred by telephone with the President. Then Press Secretary James Hagerty announced that "both the President and the Secretary of State regard the independence of Jordan as vital." The wording, Hagerty noted, echoed the Eisenhower Doctrine's declaration that the U.S. "regards as vital to the national interest and world peace the preservation of the independence and integrity of the nations of the Middle East...
...periodicals to Polish libraries, institutions and individuals. "We know," Heald said, "that activity of an educational or scientific character is not a substitute for the essential security efforts of our Government. But we have the conviction that in the development of international understanding there is a proper and vital role for private institutions, including private philanthropy...
Start Toward Stability. In proclaiming that the "independence and integrity" of Jordan are "vital," the U.S. had helped to save the day. Yet it is not Jordan's meaningless borders, its desert wastes, its desolate economy, or its restless population that are "vital" to the U.S. What matters vitally is the peace and stability of the area; it was not enough merely to reassemble the unworkable status quo ante-though that is progress of sorts. So long as half a million Palestine refugees have so little to look forward to, so long will Jordan rock. Stability in which...
...joint air, sea and land maneuver, Carib-Ex pulled together 17,000 men, 200 planes and 30 ships, making it the biggest U.S. military show in Latin America since the 1930s. As the landing force knifed inland, a swarm of helicopters deposited another Marine assault force near the vital Gatun Locks. Two days later 1,000 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division floated down to take strategic ground on the Pacific side of the Isthmus...
...only 41 million Ibs. in 1956 after a 13-year low in 1955 of 31-7 million. ¶ Idaho's mine lead production in 1956 was the lowest of any year (except 1946) since 1899. The Bradley mine in Stibnite, leading U.S. producer of stibnite-antimony, a vital hardening agent for lead and alloys, closed down...