Word: plans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Eisenhower remembered the incident, rattled off the units that were there, the next day's plan of attack and the result. Then they were off and, an hour and a half later, the 15-minute interview ended...
Thirsty Sudd. Below Lake Albert lies the Sudd, a vast swamp choked with papyrus and other tall grasses. The White Nile seeps slowly through this tangle, and loses nearly half its water in the process. Engineers plan to cut a canal 186 miles long, to bypass the water-stealing Sudd...
Some 14 percent of those who filled out the Student Council's recent Food Poll questionnaire suggested in their general comments that the meal contract plan be revised, and the Council is asking the University to show why the present 21 meal requirement is especially necessary. The change most often suggested was a reversion to the pre-war 7, 14 or 21 meal per week optional contract. But curiously enough, a return to the optional contract system would mean a cost increase for a majority, and only a small saving to a minority...
...Therefore we see that the universe is one, just as the economist is now discovering that there is a high degree of interdependence between nations; that one nation cannot continue in prosperity unless the other nations are also prosperous. The Marshall Plan is not a matter of Christian charity at all," he concluded...
This week the General got a shove. The Hoover Commission, which has been busy digging away at inefficiency in the Government, has just come up with a plan for a thorough shake-up of the whole National Security Organization, the first plan to overhaul completely the 1947 compromise. The Commission jumps on the budget problem as indicating the defects in the present organization. It cites the incredible fact that a $30,000,000,000 defense budget was once being seriously considered for 1950; that this budget included the remodeling of precisely 102 more tanks of a certain type than...