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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...
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...
...problem the NSC had wrestled with before. As long ago as last January, the policymakers had drawn the broad outlines of U.S. action in case of Korean invasion: the quick recourse to the United Nations Security Council and the dispatch of arms aid (which the President had set in motion soon after the Communists began rolling). But in its blackboard arguments, NSC had never been able to make up its mind about sending U.S. troops. Infantryman Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, had held that Korea wasn't worth it from the standpoint of pure military strategy...
...have similarly directed acceleration in the furnishing of military assistance to the forces of France and the Associated States in Indo-China and the dispatch of a military mission to provide close working relations with those forces...