Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...convention of some 200 delegates of labor, industry, professional and religious organizations in Washington. He assumed for diplomatic reasons, or perhaps because he still believed it, that the Red Chinese were merely concerned about their property, that they had come into the fight in Korea just to protect their border. "We are in very considerable difficulties," Acheson said. "We must clear away any misunderstanding that there may be in the minds of the Chinese. Everything in the world," he said, in the statement beamed directly at Peking, was being done to make the Communist Chinese "understand that their proper interests...
...first Red jet got past Stephens, who "pulled the second MIG into my sights and fired. Debris flew off his wing tip and he went into a dive and got away across the border." Brown, meanwhile, was on the tail of the first enemy. Said Brown later: "He was diving at a near vertical angle. I figured we were both doing more than 600 miles an hour. Anyway, the last time I looked at the airspeed indicator it was registering 600 and I think I picked up speed after that...
...week's end the reality of jet combat -the fastest kind of fighting known to man-was becoming routine along the Korean-Manchurian border. At least five more Red jets were destroyed by U.S. jet fighters...
...Manchuria into North Korea, every bridge across the Yalu River became a target. By the hundreds, U.S. jets and piston-powered planes bombed, rocketed and machine-gunned roads, supply points and assembly areas. The tempo of the allied air attack brought Russian-made jets (see below) racing across the border into dogfights with U.S. jets and piston planes. The Reds lost 48 planes in ten days. Maximum demolition and fire bomb attacks were delivered by 6-293 upon the key river-crossing cities of Sinuiju (temporary North Korean capital), Uiju and Manpojin. And though enemy antiaircraft fire came up from...
Latin America already has several local newsmagazines, but many attempts at bigger ventures have failed because the founders counted on below-the-border advertising which did not materialize. Vision's founder, 32-year-old Publisher William E. Barlow, formerly an advertising space salesman with TIME International, reasoned that U.S. companies with Latin American trade were the logical supporters of such a venture. He not only persuaded them to take ads, but to put up most of his $750,000 initial capital. As editor, Barlow hired Iowa-born, Spanish-speaking Edwin Stout, onetime assistant managing editor of Newsweek and Quick...