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...Hershey wanted, instead, six months' basic training followed by two solid years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...
...Pentagon planners, looking for one of those catchy alphabetical abbreviations to pin on the command of Allied defense forces in Europe, decided on SHAPE. This, they said, would stand for Supreme Headquarters, Atlantic Powers in Europe. Still needed: a head to fit the SHAPE. Still the likeliest bet: Ike Eisenhower, sometime head of SHAEF...
...remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town officials asked the Army at Fort Sheridan for guidance, who asked Fifth Army headquarters in Chicago, who asked the Pentagon...
...next June. When the Korean war began, there were 1,400,000 men & women in the armed forces. Since then, 400,000 draftees, reserves and guardsmen have been called up. But General Omar Bradley estimated that the services would fall short of the June goal by about 10%. Pentagon pessimists thought it would be twice that...
...much more no one knew. But some indication was given by the estimates of Pentagon-planners a month ago of how much hardware (tanks, guns, etc.) that the U.S. must produce for itself and its allies beginning immediately. The estimates: 15,000 tanks, 25,000 pieces of artillery and 40,000 super-bazookas and recoilless rifles. This would be merely a part of a general program which would run between $35 billion and $40 billion annually for the next three years and then would taper off to a maintenance level of about $25 billion a year. But since then...