Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...signing the bill to pay Farmer Madison his due, even though the creature was just a horse and not a good Missouri mule. Harry Truman, a reasonable man in such matters, signed his name to the bill and awarded Farmer Madison $75 after six years of waiting. Then, to set his Budget Bureau right, the President appended a footnote...
Good, Bad, Indifferent. Against the common danger, the U.S. was slowly mobilizing its defenses. Eighteen months ago, President Truman had ordered up a study of civilian defense. Last fortnight the National Security Resources Board issued a careful, lengthy set of instructions to local governments. Net of NSRB's study: the states must be primarily responsible for organizing themselves and for their own welfare in the event of attack; they would get some federal aid in stockpiling and training...
Around the periphery of the conflagration, firemen would set up mobile stations, try to supplement the inadequate and ruptured water supply with water pumped from the island's flanking rivers. Policemen would make their way into the devastated area, directing squads of mechanics who would turn off gas mains, burn through tangled girders, tunnel into debris after the entombed. Health department squads would penetrate into the dust-thick hell, monitoring radioactivity. Rescue squads and equipment would be ordered to the scene from undamaged, outlying communities...
...guided into hotels, other havens marked with red, white & blue signs: "This is the emergency welfare center for this area." Evacuees would be routed into tunnels that were still open, over bridges that were still intact-carried to nearby communities by trains, buses, taxis, autos. Soup kitchens would be set up. Registration points would be established to record the names of the homeless...
...beginning of last week, Munro's forward line of Berk, Jim Johnson, Captain Ted Wolf, All-American Charlio Weiss, and Ben Goldstein was passing well and appeared set for a productive season...