Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...John Osborne's report, "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa" [TIME, July 17], I get the impression that it is again time for the U.S. to make an all-out effort to support the Chinese Nationalists. Yet, if I am not mistaken, very poor use was made of the American aid that was sent to Chiang Kai-shek when the Nationalists were still in a strong position on the Chinese mainland...
There was every sign that the country was well ahead of its Administration and its representatives in Congress in realizing the danger, and in preparing to make whatever sacrifice was necessary...
...said the President, flatly. That would be an all-out mobilization, and he hoped the U.S. would not have to make an all-out mobilization...
Nagging Conscience. In similar fashion the Senate kept interrupting its urgent business all last week to make bows to the folks back home. Illinois' big, white-shocked Paul Douglas, singularly unbowed after threescore attempts to chop the omnibus appropriations bill, was back like a nagging conscience at the Senate's fat, pampered $700 million program for pet home-town works. The bill, said Douglas, has many features dubious in peacetime, "and even more dubious in wartime." Six eastern Republicans agreed with him, and proposed a flat...
...Take the last war," Lem explained to a reporter. "Son, the Government buried us in controls. Take sizes, for instance. Before the war we were making a nice job -6 ft. 6 by 26. Along comes the war, and the Government tells us what to make-6 ft. 3 by 22 was the largest. Son, the morticians had to fit them in with a shoehorn. All because the Government didn't know people had been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn...