Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...laying some plans. "He asked me," recounted Dewey last week, "to make no plans which would be inconsistent with those of the Federal Government. I said, 'Which plans?' He said they hoped to have some in September. I asked him whether he had an enforceable guarantee against attack in the meantime and he said 'No.' I advised him we would go ahead in doing our best to protect our own people...
...same combination of anxiety and uncertainty had driven little groups of U.S. townspeople together from Maine to California, to ponder what should be done in case of atomic attack. Few of them had either Tom Dewey's budget, General Clay, or a solicitous phone call from Washington. About the best they could do was talk it over with the police and fire departments, draw up a sheaf of diagrams, pore over what they read in the newspapers, and wait uneasily until Washington was ready to tell them what...
Manhattan's prudent bankers last week started work on a plan to preserve their records in the event of an atom bomb attack. They set up two committees to study the possibility of protecting account ledgers and other records by microfilming them each day, storing the film safely outside the city. With duplicate records intact, banks could thus move their offices to outlying areas, keep in touch with each other through a new clearinghouse, which would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables...
...determined face had over the years become almost as familiar to history as Douglas MacArthur's lofty scowl. MacArthur, accompanied by Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, had come to discuss the defenses of Formosa, which the U.S. is committed to guard against Red attack. Said MacArthur, shaking Chiang's hand: "How do you do, Generalissimo, it was nice of you to come down and meet...
Last week, the Communists tried to take Taitan, a small Nationalist-held island off the mainland port of Amoy. The Nationalists drove off the attack. Later, the Nationalist air force-which had been idle for a month because of President Truman's request that the Nationalists cease operations against the Red mainland-strafed Communist forces on the Chinese coast, reported that it sank 150 Red invasion vessels. The Nationalists called this action a "self-defense measure," and Washington accepted that explanation...