Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When box-jawed U.S. Lieut. General John Hodge moved his occupation troops into Korea in 1945 his program was: clean up the Japs; set up a free government; get out. Hodge's Soviet opposite number, Colonel General Ivan Chistyakov, whose forces held Korea north of the 38th parallel, had different orders: set up a Communist police state; build up a powerful native army; then...
...earth satellite vehicle program, which was being carried out independently by each military service, was assigned to the Committee on Guided Missiles for coordination . . . The committee recommended that current efforts in this field be limited to studies and component designs; well-defined areas of such research have been allocated to each of the three military departments...
...busy timetable system is known officially at Northport as the "Reintegrative Research Program." Dr. Verdel's shorter, better name for it is the "total push...
Third Round. The rearmament program was notably good news to the aircraft industry, which was saved from disaster by $2 billion in plane orders, but it scared many another businessman into a wild scramble for materials. The new inflationary pressures drove the cost of living up, month after month. And this gave labor a potent argument for its "third round" wage increases, another sharp spur to galloping prices...
...lacks the provocative, meaty, unexpected characterizations and anecdotes of Liddell Hart's book, but it is a far more orderly account of events. Hitler had promised that there would be no war with England until 1944 or 1945, and by that time the German navy's building program called for some 13 battleships and 16 cruisers...