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...trucks and jeeps. Reported TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast from Wolmi: "Tanks and .50-caliber machine guns were ready in reserve, but in the trucks the helmeted Americans made do with baseball bats, boxes of tear-gas bombs, and unloaded rifles. An Army officer explained: 'We're not loaded. We figure, if they come in, we've got enough time to load. We'll have no mass firing here. We'll only fire at those who fire...
...John Harding, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, took personal charge of the chase; airfields and ports were guarded, roadblocks set up. Before learning of the alarm, a police patrol car stopped a suspicious-looking truck near the racecourse at Ascot, recaptured a load of guns and arrested three Irishmen. But the others got away...
...office (Mutual Security Administrator, F.O.A. Administrator, Special Assistant to the President for disarmament): "It seems I am always swearing you in," commented the President after the ceremony. "Do we ever swear in anybody else?" ¶Went off to his Gettysburg farm for a five-day stay and a heavy load of work: 309 unsigned bills, left by the departing Congress. Next week he will fly to his annual vacation in Denver...
...ignoring TVA's needs (as had been done in the 1953 budget), Dodge decided that he could either 1) request $100 million in the 1955 budget for a new TVA steam plant, which Congress had already rejected twice, or 2) find ways to lighten TVA's load...
When Witness Dodge left the stand, it was clear that, after all the furor, his aim of 1953 was now on its way toward realization. The city of Memphis' decision to build its own power plant, thereby making the Dixon-Yates plan unnecessary, will 1) ease the load on TVA, 2) save money in the federal budget...