Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...rate the Eighth Army and the X Corps were approaching each other, a junction seemed almost certain this week. After that, the trend of battle would depend on: 1) how many North Koreans would be caught in the southwestern corner; 2) whether these troops would be able to fight or filter north through the Allied line (the U.S. spearheads driving up from the southeast naturally had no solid line behind them); 3) whether the Communists would be able and willing to fight in the northeastern corner of South Korea, with whatever troops could be regrouped in that area. If they...
Only a day after marines had driven the last North Koreans off the field, workhorse C-54s and C-119 "Flying Boxcars" were starting to set down at Kimpo at the rate of one every ten minutes during the daylight hours-almost half the average Berlin airlift rate...
...week's end Tunner's men had installed landing lights and Ground Controlled Approach equipment at Kimpo. Soon they hoped to increase the landing rate to one plane every six minutes around the clock. The speed-up wouldn't stop there. "The trouble with airplanes," says hard-driving General Tunner, "is that they spend altogether too much time on the ground...
Last month Harry Truman set an ultimate goal of 3,000,000 men in uniform. Just to feed, clothe, house and pay that number will cost $3 billion more than has been appropriated for such costs. By next June, said Truman, military spending will be running at the rate of $30 billion a year (v. the $25 billion appropriated so far this year); after that, he added, "we shall have to spend much more than $30 billion...
When the varsity went on the offensive, the sophomore end combination of Hank Rate and Paul Crowley continued to run with the first-string. John Nichols and Connelly were the tackles, Rosenau and Kanter the guards, and Lemay the center. Carroll Lowenstein joined Warden, John West, and Phil Isenberg in the backfield...