Word: recordation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Air Force celebrated its first birthday as an independent arm of equal status with the Army & Navy. It flew bombers nonstop to the U.S. from Japan and Germany. It set a new speed record. And in Germany it demonstrated what the airlift could do when it really turned on the heat...
...noon the loudspeakers at Frankfurt's field blared out the official score: 652 flights had carried 5,582.7 tons of coal. It was a new airlift record-by 154 flights and 1,652.4 tons.* Said Airman Second Class Reuel McCafferty, who did five shuttle trips: "If the Russkies ain't convinced by now, I guess they never will...
...same period, British planes toted 1,405.3 tons of food and other supplies in 244 flights-a British airlift record...
...wants a majority of the 58 United Nations to record themselves in favor of the U.S. plan. Departing for Paris with the high fervor of Crusaders, the State Department atomic team did not expect Russia, to abate its intransigence by one jot or tittle, simply counted on the moral value of a majority vote against Russia in the Assembly...
Even though the vast majority of Israelis were shocked by the crime, world public opinion would link the assassination with the long record of gangsterism, terrorism and almost insanely violent propaganda which had become associated with Israel's struggle for independence, and which moderate Zionists seemed unable to stop. In other cases, propaganda had excused or glossed over the crimes of the Jewish extremists by alleging "imperialism" on the part of the British or charging worse atrocities to the Arabs. In Bernadotte's case there was no excuse to make. He was obviously a good man who sought...