Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Hoffman spoke, the twelve foreign ministers of the Atlantic Treaty nations were meeting in London. France's dramatic offer to pool her coal and steel industries with those of Germany could mean the beginning of the end of a primary cause of age-old hatreds in the West. Last week's announcements from London-of a permanent Atlantic Treaty strategy committee, of the Atlantic nations' aim to build toward a balanced, collective military force (see INTERNATIONAL)-meant that free men were no longer sitting on their feet and wringing their hands, but moving along a steady road...
...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...
Taken together with the Atlantic Council's decision to set up a joint cold war high command, and the Schuman proposal to pool French and German heavy industry (TIME, May 22), the new defense plan was the strongest impulse toward real union that the West's heart had felt...
...when he misses a story. Gossiping colleagues and Government officials rarely edit their conversation just because Todd is around. He is still a member in good standing of the National Press Club, though no longer welcome at the Overseas Writers. (He also dropped out of a car pool after learning that the FBI was investigating his traveling companions.) Though he files several thousand words a day, Todd does not do much talking. Unlike the Secretaries of State whose every pronouncement he faithfully reports to Moscow, Larry Todd has a clause in his contract that forbids him to speak for publication...
...major, novel. One flaw: the stepmother's crackup is too feebly foreshadowed; when it comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children of the year's fiction...