Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original thesis. He thinks that the United States should withdraw from all overseas bases, cease production and testing of nuclear weapons, encourage European disarmament, relax restrictions on scientific work, prohibit arms shipments to the Middle East, establish greater cultural exchange with Russia, provide a trained civil service, and reestablish civilian control over the military. However, the more important of Mills' recommendations are made less meaningful by his inclusion of seemingly trivial suggestions such as the foundation of a fleet of airlines for intellectuals...
...barges and boxcars have supplied half a million tons a month to West Berlin, plying back and forth under East German controls. Last week, though still not officially recognizing each other, East and West Germany signed three supplemental semiofficial trade agreements, insuring that whatever happens to Allied military convoys, civilian supplies will at least continue to roll into West Berlin...
GENERAL DYNAMICS, eager to expand its civilian business, is well along in merger talks with Chicago's Material Service Corp., big (1957 sales: $103 million) producer of building supplies and coal...
...well. Next to the well stood the ruins of the ancient temple that served Kukang's 180 families. In the rubble of shattered homes, the villagers had found 18 of their number, dead or maimed. Others have died since-one family of six in its bunker-the hapless civilian victims of the grotesque Red China assault that takes place every other...
Grated Nerves. The Maryland Chemical Center resentment flared one night last September after 100 ESPPs hired a nearby boat club for a party. Togged in civilian clothes, they drank beer, played bridge, settled down to sing homemade songs.* Irked by the noise and obscenity, neighbors called the cops. State troopers, accompanied by an Army Criminal Investigation agent, swooped out of the bush, grabbed a handful of men while the majority filtered into the darkness. When the handful was ordered court-martialed, the trial became a celebrated case. ESPPs at the Chemical Center and other ESPP "campuses" chipped...