Word: ends
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...also urged appointing Wilson on Wilson's terms though they would make Symington's job less important. But rumor flitted briefly through the capital that both Secretary of Commerce Sawyer and National Production Authority Boss William Henry Harrison were apprehensive. Harry Truman's directive put an end to any argument: Wilson would be the unfettered general manager of U.S. preparedness, controlling production, prices, wages, procurement, manpower and whatever else might be necessary. He would be armed with the broadest set of powers ever granted to any citizen except a wartime President...
...customers groused and paid-or as a Seattle grocer put it, they were grumbling to the clerks but not yet to the managers. And, at week's end, there was little hoarding. Just as a good many businessmen put up their prices in anticipation of a price freeze, so a good many householders (who had also been through it all before) seemed to be holding back, when they could, in a vague hope that prices might level off soon anyway...
...Expanded draft quotas for the next two months from 90,000 to 160,000 men. By the end of February, the Army's strength would hit an estimated...
...Communist threats underlined the choice facing the Brussels conference: it could either back down and leave Europe defenseless, or it could act swiftly before the Communists translated threats into action. The conference seemed determined to act. At the end of the first day, the conferees announced plans to form a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953, including 55 to 60 divisions under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (formally appointed this week...
...Last week, having failed to destroy the U.N. forces in Korea, they were moving slowly down the central mountains, with oxcarts and Bactrian (two-humped) camels in their supply trains. Lieut. General Walton Walker's Eighth Army was braced for a blow, but at week's end the Chinese had failed to deliver it. At Hungnam, on the east coast, 60,000 men of Major General Edward M. Almond's X Corps were being successfully evacuated by sea. Since battle and weather casualties had already been evacuated, practically all of the 60,000 were fit to fight...