Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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More Work, Fewer Goods. There would be other big steps, the President made clear, as fast as the blueprints, the manpower and the administrators could be assembled and kinks straightened out. One step would be "a very rapid speedup" of military production. Salient items: five times as much aircraft production within a year (present rate: about 3,000 a year), four times as many combat vehicles, 4½ times as much electronic equipment. Taxes would be much higher. There would be a longer work week for production workers, fewer civilian goods...
...mood that currently grips Washington, talked as if the U.S. public still had to be persuaded that there was a crisis on. It seemed a time for the trumpet call to meet imminent danger, but the trumpet note was never heard. The President's words were simple and clear, but the message-like so many of Harry Truman's non-political utterances-had a thin, overworked and flat quality. His speech, in fact, had gone through ten draftings and it showed...
...plans to conduct more air raid tests and blackouts in the near future. Students will be asked to serve as wardens during these tests. Also if attacks occur, he will order all students to clear the streets and do rescue work...
Since skiing brings plenty of dollars to the state, New Hampshire does an excellent job of keeping its main roads clear throughout the winter. Skiers heading to the Eastern Slopes region, in particuar, will find at least a half-hour taken off the travelling time by using the New Hampshire Turnpike, from the Massachusetts line to Portsmouth, N.H., which was opened this summer. Another high-way improvement was made just below Conway, where the winding curves at Chocorua were eliminated...
...group points out that "thus far leadership has been most conspicuously lacking in making clear just what the equitable distribution of burdens must be among us all in our various guises as businessmen, workers, fighters, and consumers...