Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion, and a completion date in the far tomorrow of 1957. Just as serious, the cutbacks and stretch-outs cut down the rate of delivery of new planes in the close future: e.g., the President's cuts will deprive the Air Force of an average of 400 new combat planes per month in 1953 and 1954, and the U.S. will never get up to the peak production rate the Air Force had counted...
...division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star for combat missions over the Mediterranean; finally was grounded by Spaatz, who had just been grounded by Eisenhower. In 1943, went to Moscow as Chief of the U.S. Air Mission, tried to make the Russians understand the demands of strategic warfare so that they would grant the U.S. bomber bases; attended...
Slowly the 400 beleaguered police were reinforced, with tear gas and eventually with more than 1,600 policemen. Sending up white clouds of tear gas and firing over the rioters' heads, they gradually regained control. Finally, after 2½ hours of hand-to-hand combat, the Communists withdrew from the Plaza, leaving behind a litter of moaning and bleeding victims, torn flags, broken clubs and spears...
...York Yankee Second Baseman Jerry Coleman, 27, veteran of 57 combat missions as a dive-bomber pilot in World War II, switched from one champion's clothes to another's: Marine Corps green. Captain Coleman's final day in baseball featured a flawless fielding performance and a hot day at bat: four hits, climaxed by a rousing triple that brought the cheering Yankee Stadium crowd to its feet. ¶ Boston Red Sox Outfielder Ted Williams, 33, also called back as a Marine captain (he was a flying instructor in World War II), bowed out in what...
...Bush, who was boss of all U.S. Government scientists during World Wrar II, traces the evolution of scientific combat through two world wars. Radar, sonar, proximity fuses, guided missiles and atomic bombs, he points out, have almost overnight made modern warfare incalculably more swift and destructive than ever before. Even more awesome weapons are imminent: atomic rockets guided by television and atom missiles launched from submarines...