Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Reds began shelling the city from the west bank of the Naktong, President Syngman Rhee's government made its third emergency move of the war*-to Pusan-and ordered the evacuation of Taegu's population (swollen from the normal 300,000 to about twice that figure). Soon the roads to east and south were choked with heavily burdened, white-clad refugees...
...Colorado, California, Idaho and Washington. Best publicized of the lot is Harvard's Dr. Wallace Howell, hired last March by New York City (at $100 a day for a maximum of 15 days a month) when the great reservoirs in the Catskills and Westchester County were far below normal and New Yorkers were being urged to save every dribble of water...
Both sides recognized that it was not so much their own effort, but the course of the war which would shape the election outcome. For more reasons than the normal ones, Democratic politicians hoped that next November would see U.S. forces well on the way to victory...
...ward off one possible shortage: for $64,560,000, he bought Cuba's surplus sugar stock (600,000 tons), began negotiations for 250,000 tons more from other producers. This will boost the U.S. sugar supply to a new high of 8,700,000 tons, far more than normal annual consumption...
...Korea had found the U.S. with its whisky barrels full. Whisky warehouses bulged with 637 million gallons, enough to supply normal demand for almost eight years. Gin, brandy and rum were in equally plentiful supply...