Word: prods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther. Eisenhower's appointment was long overdue. A meeting of the twelve North Atlantic Treaty Foreign Ministers was scheduled for Brussels about Dec. 20, to seek agreement on German arming. This would give Secretary of State Dean Acheson a chance-if he wanted one-to prod the European governments into speed. So far, the Europeans who had been moaning that the U.S. was neglecting Europe for Asia seemed strangely inactive about their own defense in the little time that might be left to them...
Turning to set manufacturers, FCC suggested that they get right to work turning out sets that, at least, could pick up CBS color telecasts in black & white. As a prod for the reluctant manufacturers, who are having trouble making enough sets for the current market, FCC hinted that if the manufacturers' response is lukewarm it might make a final decision in favor of CBS next month...
...Ready. If all this activity and money gave a new prod to inflation, it also put the U.S. productive machine in good shape for any further war conversion that might come. The war in Korea had found key U.S. industries roaring at capacity; rising employment had restored the bulk of U.S. workers to their jobs. As a result, said Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin last week, the U.S. is far better prepared for war production than when World War II found the nation with 8,000,000 unemployed, many of them untrained or grown rusty at their skills...
...difficulty goes deeper than language. I want facts, facts to be set down with finality in my notebook. I prod the colonel: How many people have gone home? How much weaker are the Huks? How can he tell? He looks more & more harassed; suddenly he grins with a certain ferocity, and jabs his lean, dark hand at me and at each of the small group of officers who surround...
...Council wants to avoid electing its members under a non-existent constitution, it had better prod its sub-committee into some quick and intelligent action. The committee has a chance to work the Council into an organization which can do far more good than recent Councils; if the revision group makes up for wasted time, the new constitution can head off much of the criticism that has currently been dropping around the Council...