Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voters had been asked to pay billions in Marshall Plan aid, and billions for U.S. military expansion. Last week, in his first formal report, Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal told them that all this was still not enough for security against the Russians.* The U.S. taxpayers would also have to dig up more billions to arm America's friends abroad...
...technical" aspect of the Forrestal report see SCIENCE...
...Oscar Widmer, U.S. Weather Observer in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., was sure that he could report a record 48-hour rainfall. But when he checked his rain gauge he found it contained only an inch of water: it had sprung a leak...
...first annual report last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Secretary Forrestal agreed. Wrote he: ". . . It is the responsibility of the press, radio and other agencies which gather and disseminate news, not to publish information which would violate the national security . . . I agree, that in peacetime no type of [official] censorship is workable or desirable...
...guarded paragraph, worded in the Stiffest gobbledygook, set off a loud crackle of scientific and near-scientific speculation last week. In his report on unification of the services, Secretary of Defense Forrestal said...