Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week broadcast the news that the 2nd Infantry Division was landing at Pusan while soldiers were still hitting the beach. But if any help had been given the enemy, the fault was not Costello's alone. He had picked up his information from a United Press dispatch, was ahead of the newspapers only because his morning broadcast beat early afternoon editions...
Slowly, too, the sleeping giant that is the U.S. military production potential began to stir. Cadillac Motor Car agreed to produce new-type 28-ton tanks for the Army (see BUSINESS). Washington's paperwork for $16 billion in war orders was already done, and only the dispatch of official telegrams was necessary to place $900 million in "phantom orders" for machine tools...
Armed Services Chairmen Tydings (in the Senate) and Vinson (in the House) moved with even greater dispatch. Before the week was out they had slammed through their committees and presented to the Congress two major military bills: one to take the 2,006,000 ceiling off military manpower, the other (immediately passed by the Senate) to extend all enlistments for a period of one year beyond present expiration dates...
...their holidays to consider a request from the U.N. for Canadian ground troops in Korea. After a three-hour cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent gave a summary of Canada's plans. The cabinet had decided to: < ¶Turn down the U.N. appeal for ground troops. ("The dispatch at this stage of ex isting first-line elements of the Canadian army . . . would not be warranted.") ¶ Send an R.C.A.F. transport squadron (up to ten planes) to help the U.S. airlift across the Pacific. The North Star planes, with crews and 200 ground personnel, were to fly to McChord...
Ascot's Third to a Discussion. Anthony Eden, in the anecdotal way that Britons have, put the question very clearly last week. He leaned on the black leather dispatch box in the House of Commons and discussed the chances of civilization's survival in as casual a tone as if he were assessing the third race at Ascot. Said Eden...