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...answer the SOS, the Maritime Board has just started a program which it hopes will replace at least 60 worn-out vessels each year and boost shipyard employment from a low of 20,000 to a steady 36,000 men. The board first-year goal, as approved by Congress for fiscal 1955; a total outlay of $401 million in both Government subsidies and private funds to build, modernize, and repair 99 ships in U.S. shipyards. In its overall purpose, the new program is little different from the many ship-subsidy programs that the Government has launched since the basic Merchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: AN ANSWER TO THE SOS | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...Captivity. After the battle the Communists split their worn-out prisoners into two groups about 3,000 strong: they marched one group northeast towards the Red China border, the second 400 miles southeast to prison camps near Haithuon, on the coast of Red-held Viet Nam. The second group, to which these repatriated prisoners belonged, was ravaged by dysentery and malaria; the marchers got only 800 grams of rice and gruel a day, with occasional dried fish and peanuts. There were no medical supplies, although many of the walking wounded still bore shrapnel within their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Epilogue to Dienbienphu | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...from Mexico by the New York Times, was that the celebrated 2,000 tons of Communist arms, shipped in May from Poland to Guatemala, were worthless military junk. The shipment, so the story went, included a vast quantity of useless antitank mines, broken-down Czech machine guns and heavy, worn-out cannon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: In Shooting Condition | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

...deep stillness lay across the wasteland of Dienbienphu. A shroud of gunsmoke lifted from the dips and hollows where the French Union garrison had died. In the stillness, there was only a muffled tramp! tramp! tramp! as the worn-out prisoners moved north, or a sudden, shuddering thump as an ammunition dump went off, or a dull buzz in the sky where the French C475 were keeping their death watch. It was a graveyard world down there, the French pilots reported, a tornup world of broken stones and cluttered bunkers, while around it the jungle would soon regain its ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Fall of Dienbienphu | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

...garrison at Dienbienphu clung at week's end to six fire-whipped strong points by the Nam Yourn River. The tricolor still flapped jauntily above the French command post. But the 12,000 worn-out Frenchmen. Vietnamese. North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Garrison at Bay | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

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