Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Combat Man." With proper leadership, the basic assets of the Korean soldier quickly asserted themselves. He has the good qualities of the World War II Japanese soldier-fierce courage, tenacity, obedience, and ability to live and fight on a shoestring. But instead of the bloodlust and ruthlessness of Japanese militarism, he is animated by the strongest urge known to military men-defense of one's own land against an invader...
...Distinction. MacArthur's action did not solve the basic problem of reporting the Korean war. As long as there was only "voluntary censorship," and no clearly defined set of security regulations, any correspondent might guess wrong on what he should report. What particularly irked the correspondents was that MacArthur's aides seemed to make no distinction between military security and military prestige. While no newsman wanted to report strictly military information that might aid and comfort the enemy, every honest newsman wanted to tell the story straight, even if the telling reflected on the prestige of U.S. arms...
...Burial? Nobody could prove anything shady or illegal about the Mapes Hotel loan, but neither could anybody prove that the RFC's action looked very smart. There was a more basic question: Was it a proper Government function in boom times to lend money to businesses where private bankers refused to tread? Wasn't RFC too often supporting an army of potential bankrupts, to keep them going against sharper competitors...
What Canon Demant had said over the air he had already said to students at Oxford University, where last year he became Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. Calling his treatise Religion and the Decline of Capitalism, anticapitalist, anti-socialist Demant set out to diagnose the basic troubles of the time...
Addressing 400 fashion experts at a Fashion Group luncheon last week in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, Allied Stores Corp.'s B. Earl Puckett was stern. "Basic utility," said he, "cannot be the foundation of a prosperous apparel industry . . . We must accelerate obsolescence." Reminding his listeners that 1948's apparel sales had been exceptionally good because of that year's one-shot "New Look," Puckett added that what was needed was a New Look every year. "Money that was not spent for soft lines . . . was not spent on other lines of merchandise, but was saved...