Word: ooo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about on schedule or slightly ahead, and two-thirds higher than they were a year ago. But production then was only about 215 planes a month, is only about 350 today. The mobilization-plan goal: 12,000 to 13,000 planes a year. (World War II peak: 100,-ooo a year.) Employment in the aircraft industry has jumped from 185,000 to more than...
...Communist buildup of battle strength continued-in Korea and beyond Korea-the prospect of a massive Red strike against the U.N. forces became constantly more imminent. Allied intelligence had tracked three Chinese armies-100,-ooo men, more or less-up from South China to Manchuria, and from Manchuria to Korea. The number of enemy troops in Korea had increased to an estimated 600,000. Of these, the number immediately in front of Ridgway's units had dwindled from 150,000 to 115,000-indicating the classic Communist pullback for regrouping before an offensive...
...Fulton Lewis Jr., the Washington Times-Herald, and seven other individuals, charging that they had conspired to hold him up to "public scorn and ridicule" and scare away potential sponsors for his radio program. It was Pearson's third suit against Pegler. He withdrew the first (for $25,-ooo) in 1946 after he and Pegler had made a gentleman's agreement to stop calling each other names. Still pending is a second (for $250,000), filed last year after Pegler stopped being a gentleman and called Pearson a "lying blackguard...
Beardsley Ruml thought differently. Back in Manhattan, he set about rounding up businessmen and raising money ($125,-ooo to date) for the battle, which begins this week when the House Ways & Means Committee reopens its hearings on the proposed tax. Last week Ruml announced that more than 100 top businessmen had joined in forming the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation, enlisted the help of such onetime New Dealers as ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt and ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to marshal their case at the hearings...
...with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...