Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have two problems," said President Eisenhower last week at the end of a press conference where major questions dealt with the Berlin crisis. "One, not to allow ourselves to get thrown off balance, to get frightened, to get hysterical about the thing; but on the other hand, don't be so indifferent that we are certain that it's just a cry of wolf...
...Question. At week's end the President briefed chairmen and ranking members of Senate and House foreign and military affairs committees, got the sternest questioning of the week. Was it not inconsistent, asked Georgia's sharp-tongued Democrat Carl Vinson, to go ahead with planned manpower cuts in the Army and Marine Corps, given Communist strength in East Germany? Answered Ike: No. The U.S. has enough nuclear and conventional arms on hand...
Acheson's "only visible alternative": "The Soviets must be convinced that we are genuinely determined to keep [air and ground] traffic to Berlin open, at whatever risk, rather than abandon the people of Berlin and permit the whole Western position to crumble. To that end, there is much to be done between now and the end of May-a real concerting of plans with our allies, a building up of NATO power in Europe, an increase in American troop strength and a return of British and French divisions to the continent, possibly Turkish and Italian reinforcements, and a strengthening...
...comparison, Franklin Roosevelt's Gallup rating ranged from 84% to 34%, Harry Truman's from 87%, soon after he succeeded Roosevelt, to 23% at the scandal-marred, Korea-scarred end of his second term...
...year's end the U.S. will achieve "the highest level of employment and the lowest level of unemployment ever experienced in peacetime," predicted Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell to a gathering of New York businessmen last week...