Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this point, Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer had surveyed the scene in late IQJ? and reported to President Truman: the dangers to the U.S. in China were "as portentous as those leading to World War II." His recommendation: a sweeping fiveyear aid program, dependent on drastic domestic reforms in China. His prophetic warning: "A 'wait-and-see' policy would lead to ... disturbance verging on chaos, at the end of which the Chinese Communists would emerge as the dominant group." The U.S. did more than ignore Wedemeyer's recommendations. It suppressed release of his report until last week...
...Administration's $1.45 billion military-aid program was a queer-looking weapon; not even an expert could tell whether it was designed to scatter birdshot or shoot bear. That was the sensible objection raised to it by many Congressmen who could not be dismissed as isolationists. As drawn, the bill would give Harry Truman authority to send U.S. arms to any nation in the world-or even to any political faction in any nation...
Reluctantly, Acheson agreed to think it over. For a week he had sent his most eloquent lieutenants up Capitol Hill to argue for the bill exactly as it stood. Even General George Marshall had come out of retirement to give his measured, unequivocal assurance that the arms program stood foursquare with EGA and the Atlantic Treaty...
Another AEC program is the development of better means of detecting dangerous radiation before it has done any harm. One AEC team is observing Bikini Atoll, where fish, mollusks and even land plants are still concentrating radioactive substances from the A-bombs that exploded there...
There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in U.S. science...