Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But the Communists did not yield without slapping the U.S. in the face once again. At week's end, as Ward and his staff tried to arrange for transport out of China, Communist police descended on the consulate, made off with young (26)
U.S. Chiefs of Staff: if Western Europe was to stave off invasion, the Western Germans must be rearmed for defensive warfare, under Allied command†
The Shah Goes West. Next day he flew to Detroit in the presidential DC-6 Independence, was immediately hustled off in a long, gleaming motorcade to inspect automobile plants. At the Cadillac factory he asked final-assembly workers so many questions that cars began coming off the end of the...
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson's big budget-pruning shears were clipping the U.S. Navy where it hurt-in the wings. Aiming at a cut of nearly $1 billion in the current budgets of the three armed services, Johnson had ordered the Navy to lop off $353 million as its...
On Call. Lilienthal's old enemies were jubilant. Cried Tennessee's aged Senator Kenneth McKellar, who had badgered Lilienthal ever since his days with the Tennessee Valley Authority: "The country is better off.", But Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas declared that David Lilienthal was a "great public servant...