Word: setups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Where & If. Behind these scenes of Western Union fraternity lies an unprecedented peacetime experiment in military organization. The Western Union defense setup was established last year by the Brussels pact between Great Britain, France and Benelux. It is headed by the five nations' defense ministers; under them is a committee of the five nations' chiefs of staff, which drafts directives for the commanders of the Western Union land, air and sea forces and their staffs. Together these are called Uniforce. The land forces (Uniter) are under De Lattre; the air forces (Uniair) under Britain...
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...Lustron had run into more kinks in its distribution setup. The house cost $10,000 to $1 1,000 when erected, v. the $7,000 Strandlund had originally predicted. Lustron was turning out more houses than its dealers could handle and production, instead of hitting 100 a day, has now been cut back to 20 houses...
...position on the eve of the conference was approximately as follows: i) the Russians must give a clear guarantee of the West's rights in Germany; 2) the Russians must accept West Germany's democratic constitution as the basis for any all-German regime; 3) any political setup for Russia's Eastern Germany must be the result of free, Four-Power supervised elections; 4) the U.S. will not now agree to the withdrawal of occupation troops from Germany (although talk persisted that the U.S. might consider moving its troops to port cities and the French frontier...
...setup is based on having two drives a year aimed at roughly $5 per person, instead of the former single drive aimed at $10. This is expected to glean more money...