Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Foreign Ministers agreed on an overall Western defense concept along these lines: the U.S. would provide the bulk of strategic bombing aircraft and heavy naval forces; the British would concentrate on tactical light bombing and fighter forces; the French would supply the bulk of the West's land forces...
...made more than the usual colonial mistakes. All too often, especially since they put the Foreign Legion and its German mercenaries to the work of restoring order after World War II, they have been arrogant and brutal toward the Indo-Chinese. They are paying for it now, for the bulk of Communist Ho Chi Minh's support comes from anti-French, or anticolonial Indo-Chinese. A sign over an Indo-Chinese village street tells the story; it reads "Communism, No. Colonialism, Never...
...pressure of wartime and demobilization days was blamed by the Army yesterday for most of the $157,000,000 overpayments in servicemen's allotments. Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl Bendetsef reported that more than half the total has been paid back to the government and predicted that the bulk of the remainder would...
...French wanted immediate U.S. help in the defense of Indo-China, which is more & more tied in with the defense of France and Western Europe. To support the Viet Nam regime of Emperor Bao Dai against the forces of Communist Ho Chi Minh, the French were using the bulk of their army (130,000), spending about $500 million a year, almost as much as their ECAllocation. Paris argued that IndoChina's defense was a joint Western concern: only U.S. aid could make it effective. After his exchange of views with Schuman, Acheson announced that the U.S. agreed and would...
...have been made to salvage the Florencia's treasure. They yielded handfuls of gold and silver coin, a cannon designed by Benvenuto Cellini, the skeleton of a boy, some silver plate etched with Spanish arms, religious medals, ammunition and boarding pikes. But under the silt of years the bulk of the Spanish treasure still, presumably, lies where it sank, tucked securely "beneathe ye sell of ye gunroome...