Word: keep
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...House man, but believes that political and diplomatic decisions affecting the U.S. should be made in Washington, not Tokyo. Finally, on short notice, quiet, slender Averell Harriman, the President's new foreign affairs troubleshooter, was hustled off by plane to Tokyo. He was to tell the general to keep the President better informed, and on non-military matters to make recommendations, not decisions...
...estimates, the $10.5 billion rearmament program would not require more than 10% of the present capacity of 100 million tons. For example, the needed 10 million tons, steelmakers pointed out, could be trimmed out of automobiles and housing alone, and still leave both industries enough steel to keep producing at 60% of current rates. In short, steelmen thought the only thing holding up an adequate supply for all war needs was a clear-cut decision on where the steel should...
...event of an atom bomb attack. They set up two committees to study the possibility of protecting account ledgers and other records by microfilming them each day, storing the film safely outside the city. With duplicate records intact, banks could thus move their offices to outlying areas, keep in touch with each other through a new clearinghouse, which would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables which New York banks now have stored in their vaults. The vaults, sunk in solid Manhattan Island rock...
Like the unblindfolded statue atop the "new" Old Bailey (erected in 1907), Justice finally has her eyes open in 20th Century England. But just to keep his fellow countrymen from congratulating themselves, Author O'Donnell reminds them that only a century or so ago a nine-year-old boy could be sentenced to death for stealing tuppence...
Ordeal by Fire. In 1936, when the swollen Yangtze threatened to flood Hankow, Mayor Wu conscripted 30,000 coolies to repair a broken dike, trained machine guns on them to keep them from quitting; for 13 days & nights he stayed atop the dike directing their work. Floods more terrible than the Yangtze were threatening China. The Japanese conquest forced Chiang's armies back into the interior. On the morning of Mayor Wu's 35th birthday, Oct. 25, 1938, Hankow, then Chiang's center of resistance, fell to the Japanese...