Word: starter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your Dec. 23 article, "Break Up the Joint Chiefs." I feel that the military situation would be enhanced greatly if this were done. As a starter, the Pentagon should conduct a thorough study of the German World War II Armed Forces Supreme Command. They might find many fertile ideas...
...going to get. The U.S. had warned him that it could not support him in "unreasonable" claims against Japan. Furthermore, with U.S. aid to Korea scheduled for a cut this year, Rhee needs money, and Japan hinted that reparations might take the form of economic aid. As a starter, Japanese and Korean diplomats met in Tokyo to initial an agreement for the return of their respective prisoners. True to form, the Koreans deliberately kept the Japanese Foreign Minister waiting for nearly twelve hours before they showed up to sign...
...Stone Starter. The U.S. dairy industry issues a flood of calorific propaganda, blazoning on hundreds of thousands of cartons the legend, "You never outgrow your need for milk-drink three glasses of milk a day!" The message is illustrated with drawings of three generations of contented consumers. In the U.S. generally, adults are drinking far more milk as a table beverage than people in the rest of the world, where it is usually reserved for children and for cooking. What put the milk fat in the fire was a single change of rules in the Yale dining hall: instead...
Most experts feel that a few more billions for defense in fiscal 1959 will be only a starter, since the U.S. has not yet faced up to the fantastic cost of building an on-the-firing-line array of missiles. Nor has it faced up to the enormous cost of some of the other space projects now being discussed, such as a manned satellite. No missileman doubts that the U.S. will have to engage in such projects; all assume the Russians are working on them...
...country has a reputation for being a late starter in wars-military, economic or propaganda-but a quick recoverer...