Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Soviet aim is to make each of these regions as self-sufficient as possible, so that if one is knocked out in a war, the others can fight on. But Russia's regions are still heavily dependent on each other, which means on transport. For example, nearly all Russia's synthetic rubber is made at Voronezh, four-fifths of her trucks and cars are made at Gorky and Moscow, each more than 300 miles away...
...present Russian strength makes Red victory in the first phase a distinct possibility. Russian victory in the first phase would make victory in the second phase a heavy probability...
Both Russia and the U.S. took steps to make sure that the U.N. would do nothing but mark time until the delegation from Red China arrived. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles persuaded the Political & Security Committee to postpone indefinitely its scheduled debate on the future status of Formosa. In the Security Council, Russia's Jacob Malik threatened to use his veto power if the Council were asked to vote on a resolution proposed a week earlier by the U.S. and five other powers. Although the resolution was intended primarily to quiet Chinese Communist suspicions of U.N. aims in Korea...
...National Coal Board's chairman, Lord Hyndley, concluded after almost four years of nationalization that mining coal in Britain was "like running up a down escalator. You have got to run hard to stay where you are. You have got to make superhuman efforts to advance...
...Gentle, capable Careerman Thurston, not pleased at having been shuffled out of the Mexican post to make room for O'Dwyer, has retired, at 54, to Cuernavaca, there to live with his ailing mother...