Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army will keep the 20 combat divisions it now has and (because of an additional $1 billion appropriation for ammunition) may actually end up with more money than it expected to get under the Truman budget. Its training divisions, however, will be cut from ten to seven and its replacement training centers from...
...means of resolving the conflict. The police are not expected to think out and institute reforms. To clear a jungle of tigers, their employment would be useful. But here we have to deal with human beings, however mistaken and misguided. When a new idea is born, new repression cannot combat...
...World War II there were some outstanding Negro units, but of all the Negroes in uniform (about 1,000.000), 90% were kept in rear-area service outfits. During the Battle of the Bulge, when he urgently needed reinforcements, General Eisenhower put Negro service troops through a quick combat training course, attached them in platoon strength to line companies. The experiment worked: the Negro troops, more or less unsegregated for the first time, made a good combat showing. This experience became an argument for postwar integration policy...
...course evident to me at that point that the employer was discriminating against Jewish applicants for the position he advertised in Harvard's newspaper. That this discrimination is all too common we unfortunately know. To attempt to combat every instance of it would be futile...
Finally, the Army realized that the coat was useless for combat wear. It decided to cut the leggings off all the overcoats that had not been issued. Additional cost...