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...Warrior of Liberation." Tsung's army crossed the Imjin last month. On May 15 it headed for the Han, to wipe out the U.N. bridgehead. The Manchurian farmer's battalion had twelve field pieces, and his platoon operated two of the 76-mm. pieces, with 60 rounds for each gun. Supplies of shells got up to the front pretty regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY: Chinese Soldier | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...equivalent of what would have been excess profits. There is a simpler way: the money might be donated to an educational institution, Dartmouth College, for example, of which Beardsley Ruml is a trustee. And there is a still simpler way. Let the officers vote themselves bonuses so as to wipe out what would have been excess profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 21, 1951 | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...year made ?11 million ($30.8 million) profit. His Anglo American is the biggest single holder in the immensely rich new fields of the Orange Free State, and has put up more than half of the ?200 million ($560 million) being spent to develop them. Believing that South Africa must wipe out the disgrace of its mining "kraals," where Bantu workers live like prisoners, he has led the spending of ?70 million by mine operators to develop a model village to house 100,000 _ people at the new Free State mining center near Odendaalsrust. By July he expects to start taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOLD & DIAMONDS: Passing the Scepter | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...truth is never-ending. This University must not become a hand-maiden of privilege, the breeding ground of a self-styled intellectual elite. Harvard has a well-defined role to play in the days ahead: to maintain the values which the forces of economic materialism are seeking to wipe off the face of the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time for Decision | 1/30/1951 | See Source »

...plan very closely resembles that backed by President Conant, the American Association on Universities and other groups. Many people have opposed such a proposal, complaining that U.M.S. would wipe out many schools and hurt civilian professions during its first years. But, as Conant, and now Marshall, have pointed out, the short-run system of deferments should largely solve that problem. As for providing a sufficient amount of manpower for our now-weak defenses, no plan alone could be successful. We will always be dependent to some degree on voluntary enlistments And U.M.S. does supply the right answers to the questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Men at War | 1/12/1951 | See Source »

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