Word: request
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pacific area. He called an emergency meeting of airlines in Washington, asked them for all the four-engine planes they could spare. The lines offered 71 planes. Tunner said he wanted 100 more. When the lines protested that another 100 would cripple domestic air traffic, Tunner withdrew his request-for the time being. Instead he put on more MATS planes, and ordered others out of mothballs...
...could stand there, no one could tell. Already, the bill for the U.S.'s new posture of readiness was over $15 billion-and every dollar that was not recovered in taxes added to the pressure on prices. But taxes were considered politically painful. Last week, with his request for a modest $5 billion in new taxes, Harry Truman made it all seem as painless as possible...
...there would be more taxes later. At the moment, Harry Truman saw no need to request such unpleasant things until after the elections...
...consider it necessary to inform you that, in accordance with established procedure, I am assuming the presidency of the Security Council in August ... I request you to arrange to notify the members of the Security Council regarding the date of the meeting. The agenda will be communicated subsequently...
Last week, the Communists tried to take Taitan, a small Nationalist-held island off the mainland port of Amoy. The Nationalists drove off the attack. Later, the Nationalist air force-which had been idle for a month because of President Truman's request that the Nationalists cease operations against the Red mainland-strafed Communist forces on the Chinese coast, reported that it sank 150 Red invasion vessels. The Nationalists called this action a "self-defense measure," and Washington accepted that explanation...