Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Van Fleet's Eighth Army headquarters last week, an Air Force contingent from Washington-acting Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining, Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric and six major generals-conferred on the air situation. Three days later some 70 U.S. Thunderjets attacked a North Korean officers'-training school near the Yalu, smashed and burned the barracks that housed 1,500 enemy cadets. When the enemy's MIGs tried to interfere, escorting U.S. Sabres shot down twelve of the Red jets. The indications were that more heavy U.N. air blows were on the schedule...
...table at Kaesong last July 10, the Communist armies were in bad shape. From their last two spring offensives, they had reeled back with losses of probably 250,000 men. Epidemics of some sort were raging in North Korea, and presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before...
Presidential proclamation of the treaty will make Chile the fifth Latin American nation to put in force a military mutual-aid agreement with the U.S. Others: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador. Uruguay last week signed a similar pact, but like Brazil, still has to ratify it. Mexico, eighth country invited by the, U.S., declined...
Among those who like Ike is Lieut. General (ret.) Robert L. Eichelberger, boss of the U.S. Eighth Army under Douglas MacArthur from 1944 to 1948, and MacArthur's top commander in the occupation of Japan. Last week Eichelberger offered a comment on his old chief's hostility to Eisenhower. He said he knew "at first hand" that MacArthur wanted to run for President in 1944 and again in 1948 and that he had hoped for Eisenhower's support. In return, he said, Mac was willing to back Ike for President in 1952. Said Eichelberger: "If General MacArthur...
...fifth inning, the 12,732 fans at Ebbets Field began buzzing about the possibility of seeing a no-hitter. Opening the eighth, with six more outs to go, Erskine racked up his only strikeout of the day-three straight strikes burned past the Cubs' hard-hitting (.294) First Baseman Dee Fondy. By then, the excited fans were cheering every strike, groaning at the crack of bat on ball...