Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What will all this do to the civilian economy? Said the calm voice of Charlie Wilson: practically nothing. With a population increase of only 15% since 1939, the U.S. has doubled its productive capacity. There will be some sacrifices, some dislocations, some curtailment of metals for automobiles, refrigerators, etc. But the effects will hardly be calamitous...
...Lord Is Good." Calm and deliberate, dressed in a neat grey suit, Marshall handled the shotgun questioning by the members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees, under the snorting chairmanship of Texas' Tom Connally...
...been a Communist. He was convicted for perjury, but even graver was the implication that he had passed on to fellow Communists secret information to which he had access when he was working for the WPB. Remington was whisked off to jail for the night. Next day, pale but calm, he stood before Judge Noonan and received the maximum sentence for perjury: five years in jail and a $2,000 fine...
...beach in a landing craft, but was persuaded to go no closer by the Seventh Fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble. Later, MacArthur decorated Struble with the Distinguished Service Cross, though Struble had done little more, heroically speaking, than stand on his bridge in a calm sea. Vice Admiral C. T. Joy, Far East naval commander, got one too. When MacArthur finally landed, he passed out Silver Stars to three Marine officers-and two South Korean naval officers who happened to be passing...
...last week over the handling of mobilization. To Washington officials stormed the A.F.L.'s William Green and the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray to file their complaints. They saw President Truman, Mobilizer Charles Wilson and Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston, whose big hello and sympathetic ear did little to calm them down. The mobilization program, grumbled Green and Murray, was being run by big business. To this, both Johnston and Wilson had an answer: they were willing to give a top union leader a top job if he took it on full-time just as the many businessmen in Washington...