Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Britain announced that it would boost its defense budget by 45%, spending more than $9.5 billion in the next three years. At present, one of Britain's five divisions is tied down fighting Communists in Malaya, two are on garrison duty in Hong Kong and North Africa. Britain has a reserve of 4,000,000 trained or partially trained men, but they have virtually no equipment. The British army is underpaid, but so far the Labor government has not been able to bring itself to grant a pay raise which would spur enlistments-it might make trade unionists...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Beyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...
...Those taxes would be very heavy," Taft conceded. Democrats, too, indicated that the U.S. could soon expect a bill to raise this year's taxes. The nation, said Taft, must become a semi-garrison state ; it cannot go on borrowing its way and "enjoying ... a domestic spree...
...Green Huntsman, by Henri Boyle (Stendhal). Book One of Stendhal's unfinished "third masterpiece"; a penpoint dissection of life in a French garrison town of the 1830s, published in English for the first time (TIME, June...