Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would not call for reserves; next day it authorized the draft. Harry Truman announced that he had authorized the armed services to bring up their strength to a new (but undisclosed) ceiling. Under the Administration's .economy program, the combined forces now stood at 1,370,000. To reach their authorized strength of 2,006,000, the services would need to fill these gaps...
...advertising itself much too dreamily. Last week, before a Senate foreign relations subcommittee, Bill Benton got another chance to make his pitch. Up for discussion was his resolution calling for an overhaul of U.S. propaganda and an expansion of the Voice of America to reach "virtually every radio set in the world...
...America, thought the Iron Curtain countries could be ringed with U.S. transmitters at a cost of about $200 million. Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, onetime U.S. ambassador to Moscow, guaranteed that Russian satellites would be a "most fertile field," with some 4,000,000 Soviet radios also within reach, and an average of seven listeners to each set. Russia's frenzied efforts to jam Voice of America broadcasts, he added, were proof of the Voice's effectiveness...
Blind & Stubborn. On Formosa, as in every other part of Asia, U.S. pronouncements are read with extraordinary attention ; they eventually reach even the illiterate masses. And the State Department has blindly and stubbornly insisted on the maximum distribution of official American statements that were bound to undermine the Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host...
...only Australian Champion Frank Sedgman, 22, seeded No. 1 among Wimbledon's contenders, seems likely ever to reach the stature of a Budge or a Vines. Sedgman plays today's "big" game of constant attack. Best of the Americans (in the absence of Ted Schroeder, who is too busy with his refrigeration business to defend his title this year) is Billy Talbert himself, past his prime at 31 and a diabetic. Third and fourth seeded are Jaroslav Drobny, the self-exiled Czech with a singing serve which subsides to a whisper in an endurance match, and South African...