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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...London decisions meant also the abandonment of a once-cherished concept of balance among its own Army, Navy and Air Force. The Armed Forces Day parade in Washington, marching past Harry Truman and other dignitaries (see cut), perhaps marked the last time the three services would be roughly equal in strength and cost. From now on, the U.S. Navy and Air Force would expand, and the Army would likely get less, as the U.S. fitted its needs and skills into the common pool of Western defense...
...white-haired man in a blue suit and bow tie walked slowly into the chamber and took his seat. Vice President Barkley, presiding, noted the white-haired Senator's presence and the members stood and applauded. Arthur Vandenberg, who had undergone nine major operations in the past seven months and had not been at his Senate desk since February, rose with some effort, smiled and made a slight...
Meet you at the corner about half past eight...
South Amboy, N.J. (pop. 9,500), a minor port on the southern arm of vast New York Harbor, is the kind of nondescript town through which most travelers pass on the way to somewhere else. Manhattan vacationists zip past on the way to seaside villages and resorts. Commuters on the Pennsylvania's gritty Jersey Shore line spend five minutes there every trip, buried in their newspapers or staring glumly at a shabby luncheonette across from a tavern while the electric engine is changed for a steam locomotive. Sprawled along the estuary of the Raritan River, just across...
Last January, led by Peking and Moscow, the world's Communist bloc recognized Ho Chi Minh's "Democratic Republic." It was more than the Kremlin had ever done for the Communist rebels of Greece. Over the past several weeks, arms and other supplies were reported passing from Russia and China to the comrades in Indo-China. The stakes in Southeast Asia were big-as big as the global struggle between Communism and freedom...