Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Needs. To begin the job, the President asked Congress to: ¶ Remove all ceilings on the size of the armed forces, now set by law at 2,006,000 men. (He had, he said, already told Defense Secretary Louis Johnson to call up all the men he needed-from draft boards, the National Guard, the reserves.) ¶ Revive wartime priority and allocation controls for essential materials, put restrictions on consumer credit and housing construction...
Cicero (pop. 1,058) is off the main highways, set in the midst of some of the richest farmlands in Indiana. Its farmers and merchants have a lot of money in the Hamilton County bank. They do not jump at conclusions...
...York. An electrical engineer (C.C.N.Y., class of '39), Rosenberg had been an inspector for the War Department's Signal Service until early 1945, when he was fired for Communist affiliations. He broke off all open contacts with the party, quit subscribing to the Daily Worker and set up as the owner of a small, non-union machine shop in Manhattan. But the FBI kept its many eyes...
...34th Regiment scraped together a convoy of 113 vehicles and barreled through the outskirts of the city, but was halted when enemy shells set fire to an ammunition truck at the head of the column. The driver of the next truck drove through a hail of enemy fire, rammed the exploding ammunition truck off the road, and led the rest safely through the lines...
...broad daylight, the fleet steamed through the Shimonoseki Straits and cut into the Japan Sea, quite obviously bound for Korea. By sunset of the first day out, the festivities were on the wane. Rear Admiral James H. Doyle ordered blackout conditions set on all ships. Below decks...