Word: cores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walter L. Cronin, head of the Cambridge Civil Defense organization, is finding the training problem difficult Cronin says he is "building up a solid corps of defense workers who will act as a body of corporals and a core of a large body who will volunteer if the situation worsens." At present Cronin's Civil Defense army has had a few enlistments...
...government to China," boasted the Communists in 1950, and many Western observers, otherwise unsympathetic to the Communists, hastily acknowledged the Communist achievement-too hastily. Last week Chinese Communists admitted that not only is corruption widespread in Red China, but that it has infected tens of thousands of supposedly hard-core party members. Reported Po Ipo, head of a kind of a Communist Kefauver committee called the Austerity Inspection Committee: "More than 1,670 corrupt persons have been exposed in 27 government agencies." Identified as top grafters: Communications Chief Chang Wen-en, Secret Police Chief Sung Te-kuei, Tientsin...
...more than $100 million in government aid for business expansion, and transformed Canadian industry from an awkward war-born phenomenon into a peacetime economy as well-balanced as any in the world. Howe also had a strong hand in forming Canada's postwar fiscal policy, conservative to the core. Ignoring the example of the U.S., Canada refused to impose direct controls on prices and wages, putting its faith instead in strong credit controls and increased production. The policy worked. At the start of the Korean war, Canada's cost of living rose faster than...
...initial hard-core cadre of 60,000 volunteers solicited from among veteran officers and noncoms of the World War II Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe...
...Paulo boasts the most impressive skyline anywhere outside the U.S. Land at its financial core, the bank-packed downtown Triangle, sells for as much as Wall Street real estate. Modern buildings are pulled down to make way for bigger skyscrapers. On the average, a new building is finished every 50 minutes the year round. Air traffic is greater than that of London Airport. Though broad boulevards have been hacked through the city to channel the swelling flow of workers and shoppers, traffic congestion gets worse & worse. Sáo Paulo has 15,000 industrial plants and millionaires' mansions such...