Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some immediate and obvious revisions to make. The Air Force, which had been budgeted at 48 groups, had a powerful new reason for going onto a 70-group schedule as soon as Congress provided the money. The Air Force, heavily accenting bomber construction, would also have to emphasize...
These were obvious moves and they were all based on the assumption that an atomic attack on the U.S. would come from the air. But military men would also have to face up to another possibility: a sneak attack could come even more devastatingly by sea. Defensive plans would have...
Snapped George H. Love, president of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. and spokesman for the northern operators: "The strike is wholly unjustified. This is the old U.M.W. pattern of creating a national emergency to force the public to pay more for coal."
Did this mean the U.E. was pulling out of the C.I.O.?-a reporter asked. "Like President Roosevelt, I'd have to say that was an iffy question," said Fitzgerald. But later he talked more clearly: "If the C.I.O. doesn't want to meet our demands," he snorted, "it...
Mellon sat at the head of the family board,* which could measure its wealth by the wealth of top U.S. industries: Gulf Oil, Koppers, Aluminum Co. of America, the Mellon Bank and the General Reinsurance Co., which have total assets of more than $3.3 billion, and in which the Mellons...