Word: goals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taught no Communism; they are sincere nationalists who would be angry if they knew the truth. Those in the second degree are considered promising enough to be given general Communist indoctrination. Those in the third degree learn that world revolution under the total leadership of Russia is their goal...
Those last three miles were the toughest for Florence. Much of her protective grease coating had washed off. The Channel water was numbing, the currents and choppy water off the Kentish coast had reduced her stroke to arm-dragging agony. Just 500 yards from her goal, Florence was cautioned to rest a bit. "Don't worry, I've got it made now," she shouted back. The last-minute half-pull, half-paddle up the rocks cut gashes in her hands and knees. But she scrambled ashore...
...Cavalry, in a crafty withdrawal across to the east bank of the Naktong River, escaped a two-pronged Red drive from the west and north. While the G.I.s of the 1st Cavalry dug in, the Communists made a series of bloody, small-scale thrusts across the river. Their goal : the South Korean provisional capital of Taegu, only seven miles from the Naktong...
...Soviet army newspaper Red Star reported last week (reassuring nobody) that the Russian High Command had ruled out "bourgeois" blitzkrieg and surprise attacks because they yield only a temporary advantage. Inspired by Stalin's leadership toward "the sacred goal of the triumph of Communism," the High Command is working out an "invincible" military science, Red Star said. The new science emphasizes morale: "The decisive factor of war remains the human being ... In an army conducting an unjust war, there cannot be that passionate desire to be victorious without which, in fact, there cannot be victory...
...orders were designed to step up the aircraft industry's 1950 production goal to 100 million Ibs. of airframe weight, v. the 36,600,000 Ibs. on order prior to the outbreak of war in Asia. In terms of planes, it meant an increase from the 2,372 aircraft already on order for the Air Force and Navy to more than 6,000 planes. For the aircraft industry it was no longer a battle for money but against time. It would take at least nine months to double current plane production...