Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
...Lynch had investigated properly," Swan continued, "he would have found out that the purpose of the organization is to combat communism...
...Combat Cargo's priority system was a flexible one, permitting fast change when the tactical situation required it-which was often. Last month, when the early winter caught many front-line troops without winter clothing, Combat Cargo offloaded other supplies and flew in tons of shoepacs, parkas, woolen underwear and ski socks. And within hours after the ist Cavalry Division had run into the Chinese counterattack of last Halloween, the airlift had switched from gas and C rations to ammunition and medical supplies. Sometimes, too, the situation called for a fast switch in reverse. Just before the last transport...
...Administration's excess-profits tax, they were ready to go along with a boost in corporate and other taxes. Some of them, notably Lewis H. Brown, Johns-Manville board chairman, talked as tough about taxes as anyone in Washington. He asked for a $25 billion hike to help combat inflation and balance the budget...
Cloak & Dagger Missions. Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy's Was There, while dry and cautious, belonged on the shelf of must reading for the history-minded. So did Admiral Frederick Sherman's Combat Command, General Mark Clark's spirited Calculated Risk, and General Bob Eichelberger's straightforward story of the Eighth Army in the Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak...