Word: eighth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of Korea, LeMay didn't wait for the Pentagon to stir. He got. on the wire with the commanders of his air forces: the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth. He ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until...
...working on more top-secret Government devices at Manhattan's Reeves Instrument Orp. until his sudden trip south. He was described by a fellow employee at Reeves as "the genius type," a man who could carry plenty of complex data in his head. Sobell was the eighth U.S. citizen arrested on spy charges since British Physicist Klaus Fuchs began spilling what he knew of the busy Soviet espionage ring...
...Korean war and whose outfit is being used by General Walton Walker as a roving troubleshooter. After a heavy artillery and air bombardment had rocked the Reds, Michaelis' men and the South Koreans, spearheaded by Pershing tanks, recaptured Kumhwa and drove on toward Kunwi. Thus was exorcised what Eighth Army headquarters called the "gravest threat" to the Allied beachhead in Korea...
...exemptions, and a wife and two children, pays about $100; under the new law he would pay $120-one-fifth more. The man with an income of $1,000,000 now pays about $770,000; under the new law he would pay $857,000 -a little less than one-eighth more. The new schedule would hit the lowest income groups hardest, a practice that usually makes politicians' flesh creep...
...present, 2,525 copies of each issue of TIME are being flown to Korea by the Far East Air Forces for distribution to our armed forces there. Through the Eighth Army's Intelligence Section, an additional 1,000 copies are also being provided for Korean civilians (and distributed by the United States Information Service) in Pusan and the beachhead area...