Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Staff. To help him get going in a hurry, he wangled the best officers he knew. Slight, short Brigadier General John B. Montgomery, one of the Air Force's rising young (38) one-stars, moved into SAC's new headquarters at Offutt. For his deputy commander LeMay picked handsome, high-polished Thomas Sarsfield Power, 45, a bold, skillful pilot and something the Old Man is not: a diplomat and smoother-over. LeMay's chief of staff, tall, soft-spoken Major General August Walter Kissner, 44, is two other things LeMay is not: a West Pointer...
...necessary, FRB could go even further and order an increase in the cash reserves that banks are required to hold against their deposits; this would cut down funds available for loans. Nevertheless, the Treasury seemed in no mood to back down on its policy. Officials argued that a slight increase in interest rates would not check inflation; it was not enough to scare off borrowers. At the same time, a slight increase in Treasury's rate would add considerably to the burden of carrying the national debt-i.e., an increase of ⅛ of 1% in the Treasury...
There are other things, little things, that count. Some Frenchmen continue to address adult Vietnamese in the familiar "tu"-a pronoun which in French is reserved for children, intimates and riffraff. This habit could be uprooted with slight effort...
Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to eight miles away. For at least two miles from the burst, streets blocked by rubble, and power, light and water lines knocked...
...much better than the Japanese ones. Because of quake-proof construction, many Japanese buildings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were even stronger than most modern U.S. buildings. U.S. houses have a slight edge over Japan's "paper houses." Houses 7,500 feet away from the burst might survive (compared with a safety limit of 8,500 feet at Nagasaki...