Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pace of U.S. mobilization, even its first stage, said Wilson confidently, will provide the U.S. with enough war materials for a "major combat." In stage two, the U.S. will have enough for "all-out war-or all-out peace." He cited two examples : "We are establishing a production capacity of 35,000 tanks a year and intend to be able to produce 18,000 jet engines a month." (The figure, for jets alone, almost equaled peak U.S. production of aircraft engines in World War II.) The size of that goal could best be measured by Russia's arms...
...Greatest Factor." It was a somewhat less than startling disclosure. Two U.S. divisions are already in Germany-> some 100,000 men, counting various scattered constabulary, housekeeping troops and other spare parts. Four more combat divisions with their supporting troops would mean another 100,000-just about what Ohio's Robert A. Taft had already accepted as a reasonable figure...
...biggest news in the world today is that the U.S. has acquired a positive policy to combat Communism. The goal is becoming clear, the basic decisions have been taken and a strategic outline for the free world...
Colonel den Ouden and his men were in Hoengsong last week, holding on to the battered village on the central Korean front until U.S. forces in the north could be withdrawn through it. As dusk fell, 40 soldiers, dressed in U.S. combat uniforms and carrying U.S. arms, walked up to the colonel's command post. Their leader explained in English that they were South Koreans out of ammunition. He asked for a resupply, "so we can return to battle...
...super-bomber, says the Air Force, must have a combat radius of 5,000 miles with a bombload of 10,000 lbs., should be able to hit 500 m.p.h. at 55,000 ft. It must carry guns and, perhaps, air-to-air guided missiles, too. But its principal defenses will be altitude and speed. Interceptors are faster than bombers, but if a bomber flies high enough and fast enough, a short-range interceptor has a hard time getting into range before its fuel is gone...