Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There would be other big steps, the President made clear, as fast as the blueprints, the manpower and the administrators could be assembled and kinks straightened out. One step would be "a very rapid speedup" of military production. Salient items: five times as much aircraft production within a year (present rate: about 3,000 a year), four times as many combat vehicles, 4½ times as much electronic equipment. Taxes would be much higher. There would be a longer work week for production workers, fewer civilian goods...
...present, President Truman had decided to invoke only part of his powers. The mobilization that he decreed would fall far short of total mobilization, with its millions in uniform and 24-hour-a-day factories, its censorship and brownouts, its ration books and black markets. Partly, this reflected some of the lingering doubts inside Harry Truman's own Administration on the wisdom of a total commitment now to a garrison state. Partly, the apparent caution merely recognized the inevitable lag between intent and performance. With Charlie Wilson on the job, more rigors and more vigor could be expected...
...uneasy feeling that the Administration, and perhaps the U.S. itself, was not fully alert to the common danger showed also in the formation by a group of distinguished U.S. leaders of a Committee on the Present Danger. High in its ranks were Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research & Development. Dr. Bush complained that while Russia strengthened its radar defenses the U.S. was busy completing television networks...
...people Pearson likes, McCarthy because of Pearson's character-daubing attacks on him. The action started before the entree, and it had a certain air of grandeur: in their line, Pearson & McCarthy are the two biggest billygoats in the onion patch, and when they began butting, all present knew history was being made...
Tsiang charged that the present dangers in China and Korea might be attributed to the Yalta Agreement, when the Soviet Union was given the right of entry into Manchuria that the Soviet Union trained and equipped troops for the Chinese and Korean armies...