Word: letup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cost of food would bring consumer expenditures nearer the balance they held before World War II sent spending on food v. industrial products soaring. As the food budget dropped, consumers would be able to spend more on industrial products. And in manufacturing, there was no sign of a letup in demand. In the kingpin steel industry, Big Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless reported his company had a 20-week backlog, one of the biggest in its history at this time of year. There was plenty of sun, once people got used...
Army & Air Targets. The air war in "MIG Alley" (see below) and U.N. air attacks on the enemy's rear went on without letup. Van Fleet's original order on ground activity was soon modified. Some allied artillery crews began firing at "any and all targets." In one night, U.N. airmen sighted 9,700 enemy trucks rolling south toward the front, many of them with their headlights on for the sake of more speed. The airmen claimed to have destroyed 300 trucks, only a small fraction of the enemy traffic, the heaviest of the entire...
...stream of Communist invective and charges of U.N. truce violations continued last week without letup. The Peking radio frankly admitted what the free world had suspected for weeks-that the breakdown at Kaesong was closely linked to the signing of the Japanese treaty (see INTERNATIONAL). The Reds had obviously hoped to use Korea as an instrument of blackmail at San Francisco. General Ridgway seized an obvious last chance to get the truce talks on the track again and formally suggested to the Reds that the conference site be moved to another location. In a message to Kim II Sung...
Slowdown? But there are already signs that in the long run, a cease-fire would slow the pace of rearmament (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Although Defense Chief Charles E. Wilson insists there must be no letup, Government officials who have publicly backed Wilson's campaign to complete the defense program by mid-1953 now privately say it might better be stretched out to 1954 or 1955. Economy-minded Congressmen, already calling for a closer check on military spending, have plumped for a cut of $1 billion to $2 billion in next year's $49 billion schedule of defense spending...
...Thirty armed [Red Chinese police] took over, first searching both men and women after the removal of their outer clothing, then each room separately. This process lasted for 37 hours without letup, interspersed with interrogation, false accusations, and constant surveillance even to the extent of ladies being accompanied into bathrooms. Speech with one another was forbidden...