Word: poste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific procedure is that whenever unidentified and unidentifiable shapes show up on U.S. radar, e.g., the $500 million DEW line across Northern Canada and Alaska, or the ship-based radar networks in mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific, a SAC alert is declared. In his underground command post at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, General Power or a deputy orders one of scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases...
After 45 years of turning out biting, broad-stroked drawings for the editorial page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (circ. 403,068), crusading Cartoonist Daniel R. (for Robert) Fitzpatrick this week started a two-month vacation of "fishing and unwinding." While Fitz is away, the P-D plans to rerun some of his old cartoons and tap the syndicated work of the Washington Post and Times Herald's Herblock, who has been carried every Saturday for the past few years. But the bulk of the daily cartoons will be handled by a newcomer: baby-faced Bill Mauldin...
Although his only previous stint as a strictly political cartoonist was with the tabloid New York Star (nee PM), which died after seven fitful months in 1949, Mauldin has always honed an edge on his best drawings, considers his war cartoons as being "95% editorial." Says Mauldin: "The Post-Dispatch has a strong tradition of independence for its staff. I have a reputation for raising hell in cartoons, and there are not many newspapers that will stand still for that...
HELP FOR RAILS is expected from higher mail rates. Eastern lines demand 70% boost, which would stoke up revenues by $82 million a year, plus retroactive payments of $145 million. Post office has offered 15% raise that would bring rails about $17.5 million yearly. ICC will hand down decision this summer...
...start of the second half, but its aggressiveness faded after Dub Mallonee's goal made the score 4 to 2. Cornell completed the scoring in the third period with three goals, two of them unassisted and the final a rebound from a shot that hit the left post...