Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill one day last week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee threw a barrage of friendly questions at strapping General James A. Van Fleet, 60, who had just returned to the U.S. for retirement from active service after 22 months in command of the Eighth Army in Korea. Democrat Lester Hunt of Wyoming was worried by persistent reports that the Eighth Army's ammunition stocks were low. Said Van Fleet: "There has been a serious shortage of ammunition ever since I have been in Korea. There has been a critical shortage at times. There is today...
...three incidents were the latest evidence of what Korean correspondents call "Operation Clam-Up," a restriction on the press which stems from an order by Major General Paul D. Adams, the Eighth Army's chief of staff. Adams, angered by unfavorable stories, e.g., Operation Smack and the uproar over the 65th Infantry (TIME, Feb. 2 et seq.), passed the word down that there had been too much "irresponsible talk" and that he did not want a "gabby" army...
...Eighth Race: Buss...
...with being Communist plotters, and sent a mob of his supporters to storm the Assembly chamber. Aspirant Chang took refuge in a U.S. Army hospital. Rhee threatened to pull out a couple of ROK divisions from the line to back up his police, hesitated only when his good friend, Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet, flew to Pusan and told the President that this would mean an open rupture with the U.N. forces. When the Voice of America commented on his action, Rhee cut it off the air and invoked a censorship of news and publications. To an official note...
...Greenbriar suite of Cleveland's Terminal Tower, lean, white-thatched old Cyrus S. Eaton, 70, invited newsmen last week, to tell them of one of the biggest and most successful deals of his roller-coaster career. Chicago's Inland Steel Co., eighth biggest in the U.S., had agreed to put up $50 million for development of Eaton's Steep Rock iron-ore deposits at Steep Rock Lake, Ont. As part of the deal, Eaton's own Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. got an $8,000,000 loan from Inland to help develop its own diggings...