Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...changes its own line again, will defend a position that is also based on inconsistency. The U.S. Government, though it is pledged to the defense of Formosa, is still unwilling to work in anything like partnership with the Nationalist government on Formosa, and never misses a chance to make the point clear, even though an assault by the Reds would make partnership an absolute necessity. Furthermore, the State Department tacitly encouraged Whitehall's recognition of Red China last January...
...Stockholm, Yaleman Jim Fuchs won an international shot-put meet with a heave of 54 ft. 7½ in., returned to the field this week to make his best toss yet, a world-record 58 ft. 9 9/641n...
...sailing ever since her father, Arnold E. Monetti, Manhassat Bay's commodore, bought an Atlantic class (30-ft.) sloop nine years ago. Nobody taught her to sail: "I just learned how by doing it." A ninth-grader, Toni hopes to become an artist because "you can't make a living out of sailing." But, like most of her fellow midgets, she fully intends to keep on racing, too. When she reaches 18, Toni will sail in women's class events; the women's champion of the Sound is feted each year with a trophy bowl filled...
...strikers won a management promise to make no economy staff cuts for a year. Said Thomas Murphy, executive vice president of the New York Guild: "Even if the Telly loses 50% of its advertising, no one can be laid off for a year." Salaries were also to be boosted. The pre-strike minimum salaries had run from $36 to $110 a week. It was reported that under the proposed agreement they would range from $39 to $120-just about what the strikers had demanded. But the 10% general wage increase which the Guild had demanded had been chopped...
...City Sue who broadcasts to our troops in Korea . . . I'm sure that if most Americans should walk through the crowded wards [of wounded] they would grab baseball bats and hit a few fungoes the next time the Communists assemble in Union Square. If this doesn't make sense to you, the hell with it. It does...