Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This decision to purchase the combat aircraft for 143 wings in a program limited to 120 wings . . . leaves most of these airplanes without units, people or bases, and the only alternative is to store them." Even the extra planes to be transferred to the Air National Guard would not be part of the ready Air Force. "With the kind of warning we expect to get of a Soviet atomic attack, the defense and strategic wings must be ready, some of the crews in planes at the end of the runway...
...following day, the 1,050,00-member American Council of Christian Churches circulated a petition among clergymen asking for an investigation of the Churches to combat the infiltration of Communists. "The preservation of both civil and religious liberty," said the Council, "calls for such an investigation." The group, organized in 1941, sought to "offset the modernist, Socialist influence of the National Council of Churches...
...same kind of opposition that watered down the Pennsylvania Loyalty Act is being mobilized to combat two more bills recently introduced into the Pennsylvania legislature...
...months, the United Nations has been pursuing peace at the truce table in Korea, while the fighting has gone on. With the Communist generals calling the combat turns, the U.N. was only fending off the enemy. Time after time, the prospect of a truce seemed bright, then faded as the casualty lists inexorably grew. This week there were signs once more that a Korean truce might be a reality in a matter of days...
...record, the Sabre jets now meeting the enemy's MIG-155 in Korea are the finest fighters in combat, and Air Force men are no longer dazzled, as they were at first sight, by the nimble performance of the enemy's No. 1 interceptor. Over the past twelve months, the ratio of MIGs downed to Sabres lost in air combat has soared from about 8 to 1 to upwards of 15 to 1. For several days this month, when the MIGs offered battle in numbers, they were being knocked down like grouse on a Scottish moor...