Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postwar position was unthinkable. The B2H2 resolution is the most specific of all postwar resolutions (36 to date) before Congress: it calls on the U.S. to take the initiative in forming a United Nations organization to set up machinery for peaceful settlement of disputes between nations and establish a United Nations police force to stop future aggression. Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, stuffed B2H2 into his pigeonhole...
...Woodlark and on tiny Kiriwina Island in the Trobriand group, the Americans found no Japs. Ahead was hard work to establish camps and airplane landing strips, but the soldiers also had time to meet the friendly natives. Soon each soldier had an island price list, computed in terms of the stinking twist tobacco which serves for currency (one grass skirt, two or three sticks; one turtle, two sticks...
...this ridge one day last week swarmed Jap jungle fighters in greater force than they had mustered for some time. Anticipating attacks on Salamaua and Lae, they were feeling out Allied positions, possibly planning to open a limited drive southeast to establish better defenses. But the Allied troops, now skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin...
...these notions. Said he: "There's too much of the popular science approach to the geophysical sciences in the U.S. We are far behind Scandinavia, where these sciences are most advanced, because we think in terms of controlling chemicals in a laboratory. We should try instead to establish a delicate balance between man and his environment...
Resolved by the House of Representatives [the Senate concurring'] that the Congress hereby expresses itself as favoring the creation of appropriate international machinery with power adequate to establish and maintain a just and lasting peace among the nations of the world, and as favoring participation by the United States therein...