Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven years after victory in World War II," Ike charged, "this Administration has bungled us perilously close to World War III . . . Why are we at war in Korea? . . . We are in that war because of failure to observe some of the principles for preventing war . . . because this Administration grossly underestimated the actual threat ... [and] allowed America, in a time when strength was needed, to become weak . . . We are in that war because, having helped set up the Korean republic, and, knowing that strength was being massed against that republic north of its borders, there was a failure to build...
Then Candidate Eisenhower took a final thrust at the Administration on its unmentionable issue: "The one-the only -way to win World War III is to prevent it ... We can effectively discourage any further dangerous moves of Communist-planned aggression . . . Let's sweep this country with such a wave of resolve, determination and action that the little men, the defeatists, the false prophets of the false doctrine that it can't be done, will be tossed out of power and the real America given a chance to move...
...agenda was rearmament, denounced in two big package resolutions inspired by the Communists. They hewed closely to the Kremlin line: rearmament is warmongering; friendship with Germany and Japan is truckling with fascism; Americans in general and Dwight D. Eisenhower in particular are bloodthirsty counterrevolutionaries intent on provoking World War III...
...small. Nor does he want the faster 44-passenger Comet II, scheduled for limited production next year, although he is willing to buy a couple to test on the New York-Puerto Rico run. Rickenbacker wanted De Havilland to jump ahead to the 60-to-75-passenger Comet III, whose prototype has not yet even been built. Said Rickenbacker: "If I were an Englishman, I would work day and night-including weekends-to keep the advantage they have." De Havilland's reply: it cannot boost commercial production and meet its rearmament quotas. Then, said Rickenbacker, it ought to license...
...Good III Wind. The plan does work. Since 1894, when the company started on $2,600 capital, it has never failed to pay off an investor. It has not only weathered wars, depressions and bank runs, but some ill winds which blew it good. In 1943, when SEC brought suit to compel I.D.S. to follow a policy of "full dis- osure," stressing objections as well as advantages to its savings plans, I.D.S. discovered that underselling actually boosted its business. After hearing all the disadvantages (low interest, losses on early cash-ins, etc.), cautious investors felt that candid I.D.S...