Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
...military men in Paris had two quick preliminary meetings. While some of his aides went dancing on Montmartre, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, burned the midnight oil in his suite at the Crillon Hotel. At the final, plenary meeting, in the Navy Ministry, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson presided in a sky-blue satin chair, before a cheerful blaze of oak logs. It took just four hours (including changes of spelling at British request, e.g., "programs" to "programmes") to produce a statement which revealed almost nothing of the real plans; newsmen called...
...essential and inevitable. In the face of an East German, Red-armed puppet state, a Western Germany capable of defending itself is necessary to the successful defense of all Western Europe. This view has been forcefully expressed by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, and is the opinion of most, if not all, top U.S. military men. When the press last week reported Western military thinking on the subject, French public opinion promptly registered alarm-though a good deal less than might have been expected. France's own General de Lattre de Tassigny...
...exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors. Tipsters were insisting that U.S. scientists are working on "the hydrogen bomb." The rumors started when Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, told a television audience that the U.S. was trying to make a bomb i ,000 times as powerful as the one used at Hiroshima...
Another whose profit-sharing plan increased workers' efficiency was Jewel Tea Co. Started 25 years ago by Jewel's Board Chairman John M. Hancock, onetime adviser to Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, the Jewel plan provides for joint pension contributions plus profit-shares from management amounting to 15% of net earnings after dividends. To some employees it has paid off an average return of 55% on their original contributions...