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...Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...
...mainspring of this economic expansion is population. Right now, U.S. population is in the midst of its greatest buildup of the 20th century. By 1975 it can reasonably be expected to reach 221 million-an increase in 20 years equal to its total gain during the first 40 years of the century. Expanding apace with this lusty market, the U.S. economy should continue to create more and more jobs...
...political campaign is a matter of years-not weeks or months. Long before the public hears the tumult and the shouting, the preliminary buildup has been under way ... I, and several other people who were close to the Governor [F. D. Roosevelt of New York], had been pondering over his chances to be the party standard-bearer in 1932 ever since his first election to the gubernatorial chair...
Years after the event (and even after his split with F.D.R.), big Jim Farley could still take professional pride in the preliminary buildup that gave Governor Roosevelt his 1932 convention victory over the Democrats' 1928 presidential nominee, Al Smith. Last week another New York professional was pondering the chances of another New York governor to take the 1956 convention away from another ex-nominee...
During World War II the Royal Canadian Air Force auxiliary sparked Canada's 200,000-man air buildup; its pilots trained and led combat squadrons overseas. But today its 5,000 part-time airmen, flying on weekends and vacations, must make do with Harvard trainers, prop-driven Mustangs, and a few obsolescent Vampire jets. Without making any official announcement, Canada's defense chiefs have decided to count out the weekend warriors as an essential part of the nation's shield against atomic attack...