Word: logjams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with their heavy demands on local labor and materials, have been leveling off. Storage facilities and a runway have been completed at Cam Ranh Bay, for example, and new docks have been put into operation along the Saigon River near the capital, ending what was once a serious logistic logjam...
There are now 197,000 American servicemen on duty in South Viet Nam, and once the supply logjam is finally broken, possibly by next month, the rate of flow may raise that total to 600,000. Mississippi's Senator John Stennis, a member of the Armed Services Committee whose forecasts have proved to be notably accurate in the past, cited that figure last week as the minimum needed...
...Economics proposal would allow a student to break up this logjam. In conjunction with the new General Education program, it could revolutionize the senior year. Writing a thesis as a junior would free the student to spend senior year planning his future, reassessing his departmental training for generals, and pondering the larger questions of his education by fulfilling the new Gen Ed requirement with "upper level" courses...
What we had to do was put the present Vietnam logjam into the context of the main problem of U.S. Asian policy, the failure to deal effectively with China...
...With logjam broken, the Senate speedily turned to remaining business. Before the week...