Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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With his key men picked, Clay sent directives to state, county and city officials, telling them what he expected them to do. He set a target date of Dec. 1, by which time organization was supposed to be complete...
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...
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...
...promise that no steps would be taken to nationalize steel while the present crisis lasted-at least until there had been a further appeal to the country? Supply Minister George R. Strauss rose to give the cabinet's answer: the government's Iron & Steel Corp. would be set...
Nehru, overconfident, had not openly campaigned against Tandon. But at Gandhinagar the Pandit set about making up for lost time. Driving around in his bloodred, brand-new Oldsmobile convertible, Nehru made 13 speeches...