Word: rearmaments
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Badly defeated in November 1948, he retired broodingly to his South Salem, N.Y. farm. Occasionally, he was heard from, raising his voice against rearmament and the Atlantic pact. Then there were signs that he was edging away from his captors. Last month he was suddenly heard from, denouncing Russia's part in North Korea. "I am on the side of my country," he said. Then he sat around wistfully, waiting for his followers to rally...
...only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...
...Japan last week, for the first time since the U.S. occupation, Japanese openly talked rearmament. In Western Germany, plain Germans talked rearmament too, but there the topic was no longer new. In Western Germany the question was not if, but when...
...estimates, the $10.5 billion rearmament program would not require more than 10% of the present capacity of 100 million tons. For example, the needed 10 million tons, steelmakers pointed out, could be trimmed out of automobiles and housing alone, and still leave both industries enough steel to keep producing at 60% of current rates. In short, steelmen thought the only thing holding up an adequate supply for all war needs was a clear-cut decision on where the steel should...
...sessions in London. The council's first four jobs: 1) create a balanced collective force based in Europe; 2) set up mobile forces in reserve which can be moved quickly to any trouble spot; 3) partly mobilize industry for war production; 4) work out a master plan of rearmament...