Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ground level...
...financial blueprint for a North Atlantic army began to take form. After four days of high-level haggling in Washington, France and the U.S. reached agreement on what the French would get in U.S. arms and money during the coming year. No specific overall figure was set down, but the understanding is that France (plus Indo-China) will receive between 30% and 40% of the $6 billion appropriated for MDAP...
...program which looks toward rearming Germany and Japan on the basis of opportunism and expediency, and the program which I suggest-which is to restore these two nations to positions of responsibility and respectability in the family of nations. The former is a make shift on the purely military level. The latter is a long-term political program for peace...
...cleared the Wonsan area of mines. Said Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, commander of the U.N. Blockade and Escort Force in Korea: "The Russians apparently have everything we have and everything the Germans had in mining techniques . . . The U.S. must put minesweeping on the same priority level as anti-submarine and carrier warfare...
...ordered rubbermen to cut their overall use of new rubber by about 16% for the balance of the year, or back to the pre-Korea level. (This means that tire production will have to be cut, and that there may be shortages in some other rubber products...