Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neither Nehru nor Finance Minister Krishnamachari has been willing to scrap or revamp the second five-year plan. Last week Krishnamachari announced that he would make a visit to the U.S. next month. Nothing drastic would be done about the plan until he had tried his luck in Washington...
...bill's most dangerous opponent was Ohio's Frank Bow, who threatened to tack on it what the House calls "The Bow thing"-a resolution to scrap U.S. status-of-forces agreements (TIME. June 17), which govern the arrangements for law enforcement for U.S. troops overseas. Waving off all remonstrances, Bow did experience at the last moment a tactical change of heart. He decided to save his amendment for the actual appropriation bill, where it would be more potent. But Texas Democrat Omar Burleson grabbed the issue, offered a "sense of Congress" amendment calling on the President...
...House scheduled a vote this week on what Speaker Sam Rayburn calls "the Bow thing," a resolution, fostered by Ohio Republican Frank T. Bow, calling upon the Administration to scrap its status-of-forces agreements (TIME, June 17) with foreign countries. Ohio's Bow, who has made a career out of attacking status-of-forces pacts, got his resolution through the House Foreign Affairs Committee by an 18-to-8 vote, and will very likely get it through the full House. But the Senate, asking a dim view of House meddling with the Senate's business of treaties...
Fingers were still crossed. The proposition was not that the U.S. should scrap any of its military potential in exchange for a Russian promise to do the same, but to find out whether reciprocal, safeguarded moves are 1) feasible, 2) possible...
Irritated when Japanese civilians scrambled recklessly across the U.S. Army's Somagahara rifle range near Tokyo in search of scrap metal, G.I. William S. Girard one day last January decided to get tough. He shoved an expended cartridge into the grenade launcher on his rifle, slid a blank into the rifle, and fired in the general direction of five civilians 30 yards away. The cartridge hit a 46-year-old woman in the back and killed...