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...situation before war broke out was unstable," Beveridge stated. "There were border raids ... South Korea had a heavy armament program ... Dulles went to South Korea for the attack, and the North Koreans were uneasy...
...ordnance, contracts went out for tank-type vehicles of the same family as the new light tank to be built by Cadillac (TIME, July 31). American Car & Foundry Co. (Berwick, Pa.) and the Massey-Harris Co. (Racine, Wis.) will build howitzer carriages, the International Harvester Co. (Melrose Park, Ill.) armament personnel carriers, and the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. (Renton, Wash.) gun motor carriages...
...June, said the Census Bureau, within a shade of the 1948 high, and was still rising. With unemployment close to a bottom of 3,384,000 (v. 8,300,000 in June of 1940), there was no big jobless pool to draw from for new armament orders...
Messe's program could not be carried out under peace treaty restrictions on Italian armament, which limit Italian armed forces to 300,000 men and forbid Italy from experimenting with new weapons, possessing such "offensive" weapons as bombers and long-range artillery...
...arms to reach Italy under the U.S. Military Assistance Program approached its wharf last week, Naples was prepared for anything. But when the Exilona finally tied up at the pier, nothing happened. Communist organizers called on all Italian workers to strike forthwith. Six trolleycar motormen, five bus drivers, some armament workers and a spaghetti factory obeyed. Two of the bus drivers later changed their minds...