Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most Senators, had spent several months looking for soft spots in the bill. The Douglas finger jabbed at old military featherbeds. He wanted to save $50 to $100 million by cutting off flight pay of Air Force officers who did not fly. He proposed to reduce the ratio between combat men and supporting personnel. He suggested that the Navy did not need 95 new luxury planes, costing $215 million, for VIPs. In all, he claimed, his cautious cuts would total nearly $1 billion...
...three key men for Crusade is Jack Bush, who heads the filmediting staff that is pulling the dramatic story together from film shot by combat photographers of six nations, enemy and friendly, in history's best-photographed war. For a look at this work, I recently dropped by Jack's editing room to find him barricaded behind some 10,000 feet of film for the twelfth chapter, "The War at Sea." As he flicked the knob of his film viewer, I saw a periscope's view of a torpedo-blasted Japanese ship. Another strip showed another side...
...Pacific theater on a trip to Tokyo for talks with surviving enemy foot soldiers and officers. In one interview, he found that the Japanese ex-officer, with whom he was talking, had directed mortar fire on the town of Garapan, Saipan, where Feldkamp, a World War II Marine Corps combat correspondent had been crouching in a hole ducking the fragments...
...fighting erupted in one sector after another, U.N. combat commanders asked their G-2s, "Is this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...
...active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled in 79 U.S. medical schools last year, a 22.5% increase over prewar. <¶ Not all the heroes of the Korean war have been gun-toting combat men. Last week the Army added up some statistics, announced that 2,800 decorations had been won by its devoted medics. Among them: one Medal of Honor, nine D.S.C.s, 149 Silver Stars, 1,110 Purple Hearts. ¶ In Washington, the National Research Council spoke up to scotch a hoax. People calling...