Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Wilson on Wilson's terms though they would make Symington's job less important. But rumor flitted briefly through the capital that both Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and National Production Authority Boss William Henry Harrison were apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager of U.S. preparedness, controlling production, prices, wages, procurement, manpower and whatever else might be necessary. He would be armed with the broadest set of powers ever granted to any citizen except a wartime President...
...answer was to be found at the Pentagon, where top military men were anxious not to have too much mobilization too fast. Their argument went thus: it would be chaotic to throw millions of men into uniform without enough weapons to fight with or enough men to train them; to do so would also disturb the production of war goods by robbing defense plants of men before the plants were in shape to replace them. One of General George Catlett Marshall's convictions is that all-out mobilization should be ordered only at the certain prospect...
However it got there, Bacteriologist Marsh didn't think the mouse could do the drink any harm. With the air of a man about to demolish an argument, the plaintiff's lawyer got up to cross-examine. Would you drink it? he asked. Sure, said Witness Marsh calmly. The lawyer handed him Exhibit One. Homer Marsh gulped the liquid down. "Can't get the mouse down," he said apologetically...
Secondly, answering Cole's argument that U.M.S. could not provide enough men, Conant stated that the nation would always have to rely to some degree on long-term enlistments to maintain a large standing army; this would hold true under continued Selective Service too, he said...
...basic argument rocked U.S. industry and Government last week. Should across-the-board price & wage controls be slapped...