Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...increased to a full 18,000 each. To these will have to be added supporting artillery, engineers, antiaircraft outfits, etc. Certain National Guard regiments and battalions would be mobilized and fully equipped, two more regular divisions would be added to the Army's ten. Three divisions would be set up as a base for further manpower expansion-to keep creeping mobilization abreast of creeping crisis. In round numbers the immediate requirements would probably total...
Wallace brushed aside a whole clutch of Progressive Party comrades who had been trying to set him straight. Russia, he declared defiantly, was behind the whole thing and could stop the war tomorrow if she wanted to. Said Wallace: "I cannot agree with those who want to start a propaganda drive to pull the U.N. troops out of Korea...
...denounced Russell as a supporter of the Fair Deal in Washington, and of the Long dynasty in Baton Rouge. "Longism" had already taxed the poor voter's cigarettes, beer and gasoline to set up a welfare program shot full of politics, he cried. Weren't the Longs paying for Russell's campaign out of a multimillion-dollar highway appropriation? Russell wasn't saying, but shrewdly baited Lafargue into opposing FEPC, in hopes of undercutting the prospective pro-Lafargue Negro vote in New Orleans...
...Peurifoy's job the President picked 35-year-old Carlisle Humelsine, a relaxed, resourceful wartime communications expert for General. Marshall, who winnowed thousands of messages from all over the world, boiled them down for Marshall, and set up the Chief of Staff's daily briefing session at 6:40 a.m. Within State, Humelsine had earned a reputation for mowing trivia and red tape out of Dean Acheson's path, leaving the Secretary freer than any of his predecessors to concentrate on the big issues. Like Peurifoy, hard-working Carl Humelsine had never taken time to be measured...
...York jewelers reported that the Korean crisis had set off the biggest spurt in the sale of engagement and wedding rings since the end of World...