Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tranquil with an If. President Painter didn't fire Dobie, but he did bat an eye. After his first year in office, he reported that everything was now tranquil on the campus, and that he would not tolerate "any further attempts on the part of individuals within our staff ... to besmirch the good reputation of the university." Dobie decided that that meant him. In the weekly Texas Spectator, he called Painter "a flunky of the Laval pattern...
Despite their whopping circulation of over 4,000,000 and their tiny U.S. staff of only 27, the foreign editions combined have yet to show a profit...
Plans of the two top divisions of the Red Army's General Staff (Bureau No. 1, administration and organization, and No. 2, mobilization) anticipate a Russian force of 120 divisions by Jan. 1, 1948, plus 30 special divisions of twice the usual size located in Russian occupation areas. That will give the Soviet Union a peacetime army...
...equal, if not greater, concern to the Soviet General Staff, however, is their belief that the Americans have found a means of denaturing gasoline or rendering it useless by atomic bombing when the oilfields are located near the sea-which is the case with most Soviet oilfields, particularly those around Baku. If the Baku deposits were rendered useless by A-bombing of the sea nearby, there could be no three-dimensional warfare, for this, of course, involves tremendous consumption of gasoline...
Aware of this danger, the Soviet General Staff has begun a major undertaking on the Caspian shores: they are erecting a gigantic metal screen, something like an enormous Faraday cage, which would prevent the radioactive effect of the bombs from reaching...