Word: vitalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense of Formosa and the Pescadores," and to show a wholehearted U.S. determination to that end. Commenting that this authority would cover "closely related localities," he singled out for special mention the island of Quemoy, only five miles off the Chinese mainland, which Chiang Kai-shek considers vital to the defense of Formosa. The message carefully avoided any reference to future use of the Chiang-held territory to liberate the mainland, and just as carefully said that the situation was too critical to await appropriate action by the United Nations...
...range for Nationalist planes from Taipei. Conversely, they are much too far from Formosa to be steppingstones for a Red approach to the Nationalist stronghold: their principal value is as an early radar warning post for air attacks from the North. The Pentagon considers the Tachens "valuable but not vital." They have one small airfield which cannot now be used because of artillery from Yikiang; there is a second-rate radar station. Believing the Tachens expendable, the Pentagon says that it long ago tried to persuade the Nationalists to withdraw from them. Last week, after the fall of Yikiang...
...chief protectionist arguments is that tariffs are needed to safeguard vital defense industries. Said Percy: "Our industry points with alarm to the fact that because of foreign competition there are perhaps no more than 2,000 optical workers in the U.S. This may be true; but the industry fails to mention the fact that in the process of learning the optical grinding business, we have radically changed and improved the methods used in Germany and other countries for hundreds of years. As a result, the present unit productivity of our 2,000 workers is probably greater than the productivity...
...professional football spare no efforts to protect participants . . ." But he was even more critical of boxing fans. "The rules of the Boxing Commission forbid a one-sided match; [they] require a match to be stopped when a contestant is outclassed. But the spectators dictate the determination of these vital decisions . . . In the enforcement of the Boxing Commission rules, the claims of humanity and decency are drowned in the roar of the crowd. It is a sad commentary on our sporting world that as Hayes Sanders sank to the floor, there were boos from the crowd...
...Communists who allegedly have lost crops due to a flood of the Yangtze River." Less than one percent of the Chinese people belong to the Communist party. Furthermore, the loss of crops need not be alleged; it can be demonstrated. The Yangtze inundated a large part of China's vital rice bowl. The Communists admitted the flooding of nearly 42,000 square miles of farm land. Western sources put the figure at over 267,000 square miles. In view of the Yangtze's record crest of 97 feet, the latter figure in probably the more accurate...