Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Even the Daily Worker, published in New York, U.S.A., admitted that some comrades were "confused." But it briskly set them straight. The North Koreans were not conducting aggression but "a struggle of liberation." June 26 became "the date Truman ordered the invasion of Korea" and the U.S. effort became "the Wall-Street-conceived and Truman-Dulles-engineered attack on the Korean people." Every North Korean success was another town "liberated," every U.S. reverse was gloated over ("The People's Army pushed the invading forces back all along the line"). Cried the Worker: "Today, under the orders of our Southern...
...made in 1948, when peace was no longer a sure thing but only an outside possibility. Harry Truman had made that decision in a presidential election year. He had rejected the recommendations of Omar Bradley, his other military chiefs, and his Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who had set the minimum cost of an adequate military force at $18 billion. Such an expenditure could only be borne by jettisoning some of the promises of Mr. Truman's Fair Deal. The President ordered his budgetmakers to cut the military figure to $14.3 billion...
...that the U.S. assemble a 70-group Air Force, buy some 5,200 planes a year from U.S. manufacturers. Instead, the Administration decided 48 groups would be enough. Last year, when Congress instead voted $2.6 billions for a 58-group Air Force and for Naval aviation, Johnson set aside $851 million of the money to keep the ceiling at 48 groups. But deliveries now scheduled for fiscal 1951 will not even provide the 2,672 planes required for that...
...corporation which closes its fiscal year this month with $16 million in sales and $2,000,000 in profits, pays no rent, no taxes, and has no labor problems. All 3,500 of its employees are in jail. The company: Federal Prison Industries, Inc., a Government corporation set up in 1934 to sell products made by prisoners in federal penitentiaries. In 15 years, it has recouped the Government's $4,175,000 investment, has paid $10 million more to the Treasury in dividends...
...week. By that time the carp, who are mainly vegetarians, should be using that spot for a feeding ground. A ball of half-baked dough or a piece of half-boiled vegetable is good for bait. Cast it near the feeding ground, give it a foot of slack line, "set" the hook as soon as the outsmarted carp starts moving away. If he is played away from his feeding ground, "other carp will not be frightened and as many as four or five . . . may be taken...