Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scope and in detail the stern demands of the nation's preparation for war -in Korea and whatever lay beyond-were rapidly becoming clear. Leaders of both parties, united in the nation's determination to meet the aggressions of the U.S.S.R. and its satellites, were also in overall agreement on the things that had to be done. Where there were differences they lay in the area of ways & means...
...House Haunted. The effects of economy, graphic in general, were even more discouraging in detail. The details were in reports of exercises curtailed, of research and weapon development squeezed down, procurement postponed and pared. New weapons, hopefully discussed, were still mostly only on drawing boards or in the head of Vannevar Bush...
...Mustangs operating out of Korean bases have already been of tremendous help to embattled U.S. and South Korean ground forces. One day last week, a Korean police post called to report a detail of Red soldiers, 20 trucks and 10 horse carts were parked in front of their station in Chongyang. A short time later, Captain William Hook and his wingman reported the total destruction of the trucks, horse carts and most of Chongyang with firebombs and rockets. Sometimes the Air Force makes mistakes. From one hard-pressed South Korean unit, U.S. officers at headquarters of the Korean army...
Then, says Hubbard, the reactive mind is switched on. It does not store memories, but "engrams"-impressions on protoplasm itself. An engram is, he declares, "a complete recording, down to the last accurate detail, of every perception present in a moment of ... 'unconsciousness...
Phantom Orders. Already out of the cupboard is a high priority program known as "phantom orders." These orders, with a current value of $900 million, are full purchase contracts, written up to the last detail, explained to the manufacturer and then locked in his safe. It would take only a telegram from Washington to convert the phantom into a real order and start the goods-machine tools -moving down the production line...