Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...radio three times before he got an answer. Then Lou said simply: "I'm hit." The captain thought Lou was just talking about his plane; later, he realized that Lou had meant that he himself had been wounded, probably mortally. The captain suggested that Lou try to make it back to a U.S. emergency landing strip a few miles away...
Said Lou: "No, I'll never make it. I'm going back and get that bastard...
...unbidden, to mediate the Korean war, in effect proposed that the U.S. bribe Moscow into calling off the North Koreans by admitting Red China into U.N. (TIME, July 24). When the U.S. refused, Nehru was indignant. Last week, when U.N. Mediator Sir Owen Dixon suggested that India make a compromise with Pakistan to end a three-year-old dispute over possession of the princely state of Kashmir...
...French delegation complained that France had not yet received a full measure of MAP aid promised her by the U.S., and that she was not sufficiently equipped to justify further expansion of her armed forces. Said one French expert: "It's not logical to expect us to make a bigger plan when we haven't yet got the material we need for our present one . . ." The French also wanted the U.S. and Britain to send more troops to the Continent; that demand was echoed by the Germans (see below...
Female workers, dubbed Bergfrauen (mountain women) by the local population, labor as hard as the men, digging, clearing trenches, building galleries, pushing trolleys. Average pay is 200-400 East marks ($8 to $16) weekly, although a worker who exceeds the "norm" may make more. Many miners, who are issued no dust-masks, suffer from the occupational disease of silicosis. Many others suffer from gas poisoning caused by the badly ventilated mines; doctors send them back to work if they are not more than "50% disabled." The accident rate is high. News of major mining disasters continues to seep out, despite...