Word: actioneers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Communist threats underlined the choice facing the Brussels conference: it could either back down and leave Europe defenseless, or it could act swiftly before the Communists translated threats into action. The conference seemed determined to act. At the end of the first day, the conferees announced plans to form a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953, including 55 to 60 divisions under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (formally appointed this week...
Last week there was new evidence to support the military axiom that carefully cultivated discipline and esprit de corps pay off in combat effectiveness. In Washington, the Defense Department revealed that only 26 men of the U.S. Marine Corps had been reported "missing in action" since the beginning of the Korean war. This was about 1/174th of the 4,517 marine casualties so far announced. Army men "missing in action" amounted to about one-sixth of verified Army casualties...
...Rome, Pope Pius XII told an international pilgrimage of editors that films and television exercised "a unilateral influence ... on man, and more especially on youth, with its almost purely visual action carrying with it such a danger of intellectual degeneracy that one begins to consider it a danger for all people...
...nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that we can't get in a live studio production. The hero of the western is always supposed to be an agent of Captain Video's-that sort of ties it together...
Angry automen accepted the Government's mandatory freeze; they had no other choice. G.M. loudly damned the order as "discriminatory . . . ill-considered," if not actually illegal. Said G.M.: "We doubt that this arbitrary action complies with the letter or intent of the price and wage stabilization act." If auto prices were frozen, asked the automen, what about the price of raw materials? And what about wage contracts, which in the auto industry are directly tied to the rising cost of living...