Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later Johnson followed up that threat with a major personnel change which looked like the first crackdown. Vice Admiral Arthur W. Radford, wartime task-group commander, was relieved of his post as Vice Chief of Naval Operations and made Commander in Chief of the stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions and size...
...America's answer to the challenge facing the free world!"-so President Harry Truman had trumpeted at its birth in April 1948. In a tremendous twelvemonth, EGA had primed the pump of European recovery, pushed ahead through Communist attacks and sabotage, plucked 270 million people from the brink of chaos and despair. By all this it had added immeasurably to the chances of the U.S. and the world for enduring peace and prosperity. In the words of its chief, ECAdministrator Paul Gray Hoffman, it was on the way to proving itself "the best bargain the American people ever bought...
...crowed that Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, his secretariat and the party's Central Committee had moved to China's ancient cultural capital. Peiping had officially become Communist China's No. 1 city. Here, the voice of Red China continued, five Communist leaders would meet on April 1 to discuss peace terms with the Nationalists...
...magazine's cover was a color photograph of a Williamsburg garden, bright with massed red tulips, yellow pansies and pink apple blossoms. Better Homes and Gardens did more than picture the garden on its April issue. Inside, the editors told readers how to grow such a garden in their backyards. Such practical "how-to-do-it" stories have made Better Homes and Gardens (circ. 3,250,000) the bestselling homemaking magazine in the U.S.* and the current issue the plumpest (322 pp.) and most profitable ($2,000,000 worth of ads) in its 27-year history...
...week starting Friday, April 1. Times are E.S.T., subject to change...