Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flat, level voice Attlee said: "The fire that has been started in distant Korea may burn down your own house . . . The evil forces which are now attacking South Korea are part of a worldwide conspiracy against the way of life of the free democracies. They are ready to destroy our lives if we do not agree with them. They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects...
...which will not be in complete operation until 1952, Sverdrup's men will test life-size mockups of jets, turbojets and rockets under conditions simulating altitudes up to 75,000 ft. They will operate the largest supersonic wind tunnel in the U.S., to reproduce conditions found at sea-level speeds of 2,500 m.p.h. A smaller facility will test guided missiles at simulated speeds up to 7,500 m.p.h.* To Sverdrup thus went one of the key jobs in keeping the U.S. ahead in the race for technical supremacy...
Last week the whole U.S. had a question to ask of Walker: Would the U.S. get pushed off Korea into the sea? He, of course, did not know for sure. He only knew he would do his level best-which, on the record, was abundantly good-to prevent it. In public he said what he had to say and what came natural to an old soldier: "There is no question whatever about the outcome of this struggle. We shall...
This criticism was less than fair: part of the blame for any distortion or false emphasis rested on the shoulders of MacArthur's own staff. Despite ' repeated requests, it had failed to provide the regular briefings that newsmen needed in order to evaluate the platoon-and battalion-level reports they got from the front...
...guesses on whether credit controls, allocations and perhaps some cutbacks in civilian production were in the offing. The market, already jittery from the war, took another sharp nosedive. The Dow-Jones industrial average dropped eleven points, to a bottom of 197.44, setting the market back to the level of six months...