Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military strength," writes MacArthur. "Only in rare instances have his views been sought or considered in the shaping of high policy governing the conduct of war or plans to secure the peace." MacArthur finds civilian control of the military especially important in the light of the present enormous peacetime buildup of the armed forces...
What did the Red buildup portend? There are two plausible deductions: 1) that the enemy expects a smashing U.N. offensive-if the truce talks at Panmunjom fail-and is readying his defenses against it; 2) that he is mounting an offensive of his own. Despite the talk at Panmunjom and in the world's capitals, all was not entirely quiet on the Korean front...
...bomb the MIGs' Manchurian bases and prevent the buildup-as General Douglas MacArthur had suggested? Vandenberg had given a startling answer at the MacArthur hearings last spring. The answer: the U.S. did not have enough planes to bomb Manchurian bases and still keep its strategic striking force intact to deliver the atomic bomb-"the sole deterrent to war up to this time"; U.S. industry was not producing enough bombers to replace losses in such a bombing campaign...
...Chicago Daily News commented sensibly: "Dr. Ivy undoubtedly had used bad judgment in participating in a rather flamboyant publicity buildup for the 'secret' drug . . . The offense was not of such a degree as to warrant suspension . . . Dr. Ivy's eminence both in medicine and education is too well-founded to be seriously affected by a minor error on his part, no matter how much the Chicago Medical Society may exaggerate...
...that the publicity given these debates is responsible? The Yale Dally News gave a tremendous buildup to that debate and appeared the day after with a lengthy front page article. The CRIMSON, on the other hand, gives little or no notice to our activities. In one cross question debate last year on Euthanasia we could not even get space for a notice because "there is no room...