Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...newest task Johnson had set himself a commendable set of rules: don't spend time looking for headlines, try to avoid politics, avoid second-guessing war strategy, be constructive and impartial. As a starter, the seven-man Johnson subcommittee planned to survey Alaskan defenses, examine weapons and manpower needs and investigate foreign monopolies of strategic U.S. defense materials...
...Less than a week after a committee had set up shop in Manhattan to purge the nation's airwaves of suspected Communists and their fellow travelers, committee members began explaining that it was all a terrible misunderstanding. Mrs. Hestor McCullough, who had helped put Actress Jean Muir out of a job by protesting to her studio (TIME, Sept. 4), announced that she would continue protesting whenever she saw fit as an individual but not as member of any purge committee. The editors of Counterattack, who had assembled the charges of Communist leanings against Actress Muir in the first place...
...Long Island's fashionable North Shore have been watching Killenworth-the late George Dupont Pratt's fabulous 52-room country house-with jaundiced eyes ever since the Soviet Purchasing Commission bought it in 1946. When the Russians rimmed its 37 acres of lawns with barbed wire, set up playground equipment and converted it into a recreation center, nearby estate owners fairly gobbled with indignation...
...drivers were then allowed to turn back. Had they gone on they would have found special gasoline stores, ambulances, doctors and truck-borne patrols of mechanics waiting along 2,000 miles of highway. As they drove homeward, most wives had only one complaint-the Army had forgotten to set up latrines for women at Palmer...
...Communist leaders, if Russia suffered real destruction, could abandon their own industrial cities and set up their new power centers in the great capitals and industrial complexes of Western Europe. Confronted with such a vast fact, the U.S. would be faced with these alternatives: 1) to try to bomb the Russians out of Europe, which would mean utter destruction of the ancient seats of Western civilization; 2) to mount an invasion of Europe, in the teeth of the Red army forces and their atomic bombs; 3) to let the Communists keep their hold on Western Europe-and pray...