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...Almost, but not quite up to the familiar 70-group figure made famous by the Finletter commission report in 1948. The other services balked at giving the Air Force such a big slice of the military budget, and the 70-group plan was finally kicked in the teeth by President Truman in October 1948, when he was running for re-election...
...never got into operation. Along came November 1948, and, with it, the Democratic Party's Big Dream. Although the Democrats had tacitly endorsed the 80th's switch to flexible price supports, the party turned on it in the campaign and yelled that the Republicans were trying to slice the farmer's income. Thus did Harry Truman accomplish the near-impossible, the blending of the labor vote with the farm vote. The triumphant Democrats thought giddily of the future: Why not make the farmer-labor marriage permanent...
...State Department finally decided in mid-May to strengthen another big slice of the world against the assaults of Communism...
...first steps had been taken quietly, not to say timidly, but last week it was plain that U.S. foreign policy had taken on a new responsibility. The Administration had at last decided to go to the defense of another big slice of the world against the assaults of Communism...
...fierce man, for he had been arrested by the police, and he had vowed vengeance on all patels, the subcaste to which most policemen in that region belonged: he had sworn to cut off the nose of every patel he met. But the leader had barely begun to slice when he was betrayed to the police, who shot him dead...