Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chambers testified that he knew of two Communist spy rings besides his own operating in the State Department and the armed services. No officers were involved, he said, but ranking civilian officials cooperated. Once Chambers was dispatched to the West Coast with $10,000 to finance operatives there. Spies were recruited for service in Japan, Germany, France, Finland and China. Chambers helped establish the Japanese ring, heard later that at least one of. his recruits was liquidated after losing enthusiasm for his work...
Neither Snow Nor Rain ... In Greenfield, Ohio, John Rooks finally received the civilian clothes that he had mailed home from an induction camp in World...
Worst off were the civilian refugees "living in tents and huts, with 50 to a room in schoolhouses or basements of public buildings. These half-starved, half-frozen fugitives form one-tenth of the population...
After three years of military diplomacy as Ike Eisenhower's brilliant wartime chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith switched smoothly to the civilian brand in 1946 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There, for almost three years, he has nursed his ulcers and plugged determinedly away at the nation's toughest, loneliest diplomatic post. But in the stiffening deadlock of U.S.-Soviet relations there has been little that any diplomat could do other than make futile trips to the Kremlin...
...Other Side of Profits. "In what way?" shot back Wilson. "It's rotten business. It only makes 1.2% net." G.E.'s rate of profit on civilian goods-7.2% on $1.3 billion in sales-was not enough, said Wilson, to pay for expansion and to protect G.E. against a sudden sales slump...