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Word: combatting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ground. The Army, with the most Negroes, offered the most resistance. During World War II, it had kept most Negroes in transport, quartermaster, and housekeeping duties. Its experience with two Negro combat divisions had been unsatisfactory. It stubbornly clung to segregation, and argued that it had to; most of its bases are in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Ahead of the Country | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...come to the U.S. to get her American citizenship after marrying a naturalized U.S. combat veteran in Germany after the war. She was stopped at Ellis Island by Justice's Immigration and Naturalization Service, which announced that she was a bad security risk, and stood on its legal right to give no details. Immigration prepared to send Mrs. Knauff back to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Reprieve | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

Charles I. Cragg and Seymour E. Harris '20 have been appointed members of a seven-man committee to advise President Truman's economic council on measures to combat New England's unemployment problem, Leon H. Keyserling, chairman of the council, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cragg and Harris to Serve on Truman Economic Sub-Panel | 5/18/1950 | See Source »

Cambridge police, still baffled by two weekend robberies and one assault, are today concerned with a wave of vandalism. To combat the outbreak, Police Chief John R. King has ordered a special alert, directed primarily at route and cruising officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vandals Elude Cantab Police | 5/17/1950 | See Source »

...Last week in Southern Pines, N.C., the Air Force screened The Big Lift as part of a briefing for its 600-plane Exercise Swarmer, "a tactical application of the Berlin airlift under mock-combat conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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