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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...briefing room in a former Japanese housing development a mile or so from the harbor, a U.S. major went up to a tactical map and pointed to a series of diminishing arcs around the Hungnam area. Said he: "If they get to this first arc, they'll be able to hit us here with artillery if they have any real long-range stuff. We don't think they have." Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody...
...panic, no disorder. But the tempo of the operation stepped up sharply. At the docks themselves, U.S., Norwegian and Japanese merchant ships took on load after load of trucks, tanks, gasoline, rations, dismantled aircraft, jeeps, tents and kitchen stoves. The black, mud-choked roads within the dock area were jammed bumper to bumper with mud-spattered supply trains grinding and slithering down to the ships. The supply convoys passed acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open...
Ruin & Rubble. The Hungnam dock area itself was already a torn and twisted slag heap of rubble and debris left earlier by U.S. strategic bombing attacks. The concrete warehouses at the dockside had somehow escaped major damage, but most of the rest of the port facilities were in complete ruin-huge gas storage tanks crumpled up like discarded beer cans, power plants stripped of their heavy, concrete walls, their generators rusting slowly away beneath alternate snow and freezing rain. Here & there stood long lines of brand-new, Japanese-made freight cars, their gleaming white sides neatly marked with the insignia...
...living within its income-austerely. British production had increased about 40% over 1946; the rate of dollar-spending in the first quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
...blacklist of some 200 companies and individuals who have been sneaking goods into the Soviet orbit. The department said that it was also keeping a close watch on all exports to Switzerland, Spain and other way stations in the shipment of strategic goods from the U.S. to the Soviet area...