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...Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
Thirteenth in population (30,000,000) among the world's nations, but only 42nd in area, Korea is washed on three sides by salt water-the Japan Sea, the Korea Strait, and the Yellow Sea (see map). It can be said to begin with a mountain, the far northern peak of Paektu (White Head), coated with glistening pumice and sheltering in its ancient crater the deep Dragon Prince's Pool...
...carrier Philippine Sea, the cruisers Helena and Toledo and nine destroyers. The submarine Pickerel and the escort carrier Sicily, its decks loaded with warplanes, were also on their way across the Pacific. Still off the California coast as last week ended, the carrier Boxer and the escort carrier Badoeng Strait were expected to set sail in a few days...
...whether it will languish there for another two years one cannot tell.) We trust that when the committee comes to draw up a new set of rules it will consider the basic objections to the old set. We hope that it will not subscribe to the philosophy of the strait-jacket...
...House Bill will no longer permit this. Europe will have to take powdered eggs whether it wants then or not, and will have to give up a billion dollars worth of the goods it needs. ECA's chief, Paul Hoffman, calls the bill a "strait-jacket...