Word: echelons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defense is a road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light attack and inform the French of enemy movements...
...these verbal missiles arched across the Pacific, Army authorities in Tokyo finally hit on an uneasy compromise. The free-beer issue was restored with the provision that it would henceforth be purchased by post-exchange profits for front-line troops only, that rear-echelon servicemen would have to buy their own, and that soda pop would be offered to those who want...
Fruit Cocktail. "We were pinned down all the previous day by enemy fire," said a U.S. infantry corporal. "Our rations were only five feet away, but we couldn't get to them. When we finally could, we found that some rear-echelon boys had stolen all the cigarettes...
Another disappointment has been Bao Dai's effort to enlist capable ministers and lower-echelon administrators. Partly this is because so many Vietnamese are fence-sitters or fear the terror of Viet Minh agents. Partly it is a consequence of French failure, in the past and at present, to train enough natives to take over the government. Bao Dai seems to be counting on U.S. pressure to loosen up the French in this respect...
When its top executive echelon was killed in an air crash in Canada last fall (TIME, Sept. 19), Kennecott Copper Corp., biggest U.S. copper producer, started scouting for replacements. Last week the directors reached outside the industry to pick a new president. He is Charles R. Cox, 58, president of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp., biggest steel-producing subsidiary of U.S. Steel Corp...