Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Quintupled its original call for 20,000 Selective Service draftees this fall, announced that instead it will need 50,000 in September and another 50,000 in October...
...billion stockpile by 1956. Again it stirred up a fuss. Three weeks before the Korean invasion, zinc men howled that stockpiling was driving prices too high for U.S. plants and their customers. These cries were drowned out by the lead men, bawling that their prices would fall because the board was slacking off its lead buying...
...then, wheeling east, Posong, Sunchon, Yosu, Hadong, Ponggye. Elements of the Americans' tired and battered 24th Infantry Division, which needed a rest, and of the ist Cavalry Division, which could ill be spared from the central front, were wheeled 60 miles south to meet the threat. After the fall of Chinju, the next likely enemy objective was Masan-27 miles from Pusan...
...time in every battie when both commanders think they are losing. Then the one who attacks, wins. I shall attack."* General Gay did attack. An artillery barrage of white phosphorus shells caused an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 enemy casualties. Heavy enemy pressure, however, forced his units to fall back ten miles...
After Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell, his face grave, had reported that Britain's present defenses fall "a long way short of requirements," Parliament approved a defense budget increase of ?100 million ($280 million). This brought defense spending to ?880 million, about one quarter of the entire budget. The new money will be spent on a reserve of jet fighter planes, reconditioning Britain's reserve of 6,000 tanks, equipping the Royal Navy with anti-submarine devices, new antitank and antiaircraft guns, and radar predictors...