Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Force lifted some of their World War II equipment out of mothballs. Aircraft companies began stripping plastic covers off old Corsairs, Hellcats, Bearcats, B-26s, B-29s. The Independence class carrier Bataan had been reactivated, modernization of the old (1942) Essex was stepped up to a round-the-clock operation...
...been waiting for an all-out atomic war. The great tool was to be the B-36. It was that kind of war that Louis Johnson had in mind when he said: "I want Joe Stalin to know that if he starts something at 4 o'clock in the morning the fighting power and strength of America will be on the job at 5 o'clock." The joke going around the Pentagon was: "Louis said we could lick the Russians-he didn't mean the North Koreans." In short, the U.S. was at least partly prepared...
That equation would involve austerities, if not hardships. It was significant that Harry Truman now conferred with his fellow Missourian, Omar Bradley, every morning regularly at 9 o'clock. It was significant that Bradley sat in at some Cabinet meetings. The country's business until recently had been good living. Now the country's business was preparing to fight...
There is plenty of evidence that the bloody-minded professors under the Spasski clock miscalculated the time of day in the U.S. For 36 hours after President Truman's announcement that the U.S. would defend Korea, the Soviet press and officials were mum. Had they expected the U.S. move, they would have instructed Jacob Malik, their U.N. delegate, to take his seat at the Security Council and veto any U.N. action. When the Council convened, Malik was not there, and the U.S. gained the immense advantage of U.N. backing...
...market was so ticklish that it reacted to news before traders knew what the news was. In the two days following the Fourth of July holiday, the Dow-Jones industrial average had chalked up a tidy rise of 2.5 points to 210.85. But shortly after 1 o'clock on Friday afternoon, the news tickers in brokerage offices flashed a cryptic message from Washington: the President would make an important announcement at 3 o'clock (i.e., after the market had closed...