Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...readjustment of Western policy would have to start with a clear understanding of what Russia was now trying to do in Europe. The Kremlin had two main objectives: 1) to wipe out or reduce U.S. power on the Continent, and 2) to stop Western Union. On objective No. 1 the Russians' Berlin crisis had backfired. By committing itself to the relief of Berlin the U.S. had committed itself more deeply than ever to the defense of Europe. The very vulnerability of the U.S. military position in Berlin taught the lesson of how necessary it was to have force...
...carabinieri prisoners, captured armored cars, posted guns on rooftops, seized the power plant and plunged the city into darkness. In Turin, 30 industrial executives were held as hostages. In Abbadia San Salvatore, in Tuscany, two regiments of government artillery were required to repel workers attacking the nation's main telephone center. At week's end 20 police and rioters were dead and more than 200 were injured...
Throughout the picture, the Army is given an immaculate bill of health, though the main thing said in its favor (it is said twice) is that it is teaching German boys how to play baseball. There are some wickedly gratifying swipes at the kinds of nosy, sentimental Americans who are sure, at their comfortable distance, What to Do with Germany. Some of the cynicism about the "conditions" Miss Arthur observes is refreshing, too. But most of the picture is about as tastefully amusing as slipping the hotfoot to a dying...
...greatest aeronautical research agency (serving U.S. plane builders and the armed forces), Dr. Lewis fathered major experimental laboratories at Langley Field. Va., Cleveland, and Moffett Field, Calif., guided a spate of new developments (in propellers, jet propulsion, wind tunnels, etc.), including revolutionary wing designs which cut "profile drag" (the main hindrance to flight efficiency) by about...
...looked for oil. With his partner, Walter Sharp, he struck oil in the Goose Creek field, but the two-edged "fishtail" bits used in those days broke on subterranean rock. Thereupon Hughes designed a conical bit with 166 cutting edges. That tool is the original source and still the main prop of the Hughes fortune, which now amounts to about $145,000,000. The bit is leased, not sold, and accounts for some 75% of the rock bits used in drillings all over the world. The present Hughes enterprises include Hughes Aircraft at Culver City, Calif.; Hughes Productions (movies...