Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Stalingrad (in which the Germans first used the word "hedgehog"), Britain's experiences with Rommel in Africa, and NATO Commander Matt Ridgway's own mobile defenses against enemy masses in Korea. The maneuvers were commanded by General Sir John Harding, a veteran of Britain's desert battles in World War II and a hedgehog pioneer. Neither General Harding nor anyone else suggested that NATO's present divisions (hopefully estimated at 47 by year's end) could actually stop a Soviet attack. But Harding said: "This is how, at this stage, we feel...
...Manhattan financial houses, Union Securities Corp. and White, Weld & Co., agreed to manage the underwriting of the entire $87 million. To build the pipeline, Glasco had lined up Burt Hull, builder of both the Big and the Little Inch and the 1,068-mi.-long line across the desert of Saudi Arabia, named him the company's chairman of the board...
...that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most of the Peruvian coast is bone-dry desert...
Afternoons, he is in the field, barreling across the desert in his official Lincoln sedan, to ordnance depots and training camps. Often, when soldiers gripe about their miserable pay (10? a day), the commander in chief turns out his pockets and hands out all the money...
Over the Hurdles. To help design the line, he got the world's pipeline king, 68-year-old Burt Hull, who built both the Inches and Trans-Arabian's 1,068-mile desert pipeline, "Tapline" (TIME, Nov. 20, 1950). He brought in as president of U.S. Pipe Line Jersey Standard's ex-vice president Robert Haslam. Months were spent in drawing the complex plans, months more in getting O.K.s from Justice, the National Production Authority, Petroleum Administration for Defense and all the Government bureaus involved. With that approval last week, durable Paul Ryan has hurdled...