Word: forte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this Harry Truman, avowed optimist, added a conditional postscript as he chatted in the officers' mess at Fort Benning, Ga. The world could escape "that third one," said he, so long as an armed U.S. pointed the way. "I believe in preparedness to prevent hostilities in the world at large," he declared. "It took us two wars and 30 years to find out that our place in the world was one of leadership. Now we want to maintain that leadership for peace and the welfare of the world . . . and I am just as sure as I stand here that...
Harry Truman, ex-artilleryman and now Commander in Chief of the Army, Navy and Air Force, flew down a day later to inspect the 3rd Infantry at Fort Benning, Ga. (where he fired a 105-mm. howitzer battery). Then he went on to watch Air Force bombing and rocket firing at Florida's Eglin Air Force Base...
This week, 32,000 U.S. troops will begin dropping in parachutes or landing in troop-carrier planes on the green hills around Fort Bragg and Camp Mackall, N.C. Jet fighters will whisk overhead, giving them air cover. Cargo planes will fly in with all their supplies, for "Operation Swarmer" is designed to prove that a combat area, e.g., an island base for strategic bombers, can be taken and held by airborne troops entirely supplied...
...Fort Collins, Colo., a group of young lawyers and businessmen (Republicans and Democrats) formed themselves into the "Dear Ike" Club, sent out 2,000 letters which invited others to join. The simple rules: write Eisenhower a letter asking him to accept the Republican nomination; write at least ten other letters to friends telling them about the plan...
...Baltimore's first wooden pipe waterworks. As Brown's four sons joined the business, the firm opened branches in Philadelphia, New York and London, and old Alex was soon established as Baltimore's top financial brain. In 1812, when a British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore." While other merchants fled, Brown helped keep the business community functioning. Years later, when a money panic threatened to wreck Baltimore's businessmen, Alexander Brown proclaimed: "No firm inherently solvent [will] be allowed to fail." This promise...