Word: stepping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Effective Answers. Some of the solutions (e.g., step-up of missile research and development, development of antisubmarine warfare programs, steps toward dispersal of the Strategic Air Command) have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts...
...welfare funds (including employer-managed funds), would like legislation to stop right there if public opinion would stand for it. Still to come: the final report and recommendations of Arkansan John McClellan's Senate investigating subcommittee, which may well be tougher than Ike's proposals, may well step up the heat...
...step-up in the automatic annual hourly wage rate increase (now 2.5%) to a "noninflationary" 3.9% per year...
...Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow President Sukarno. Behind-the-scenes word in Djakarta: Allison got out of step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship with the Dutch and the Australians (who hold...
While the rioting was going on. Wolfgang Larrazabal, 46, chief of the Venezuelan navy, and eight other armed-forces officers met secretly at a Caracas military academy at 6 p.m., drew up an ultimatum giving the dictator until 10 p.m. to step down. To make the navy's position unmistakably clear, Rear Admiral Larrazabal (pronounced Lah-rah-sah-bahl) ordered nine destroyers to stand off Caracas' port of La Guaira with their guns trained on the shore. Army commanders, sickened by the sight of Venezuelan killing Venezuelan, joined the admiral's bid to end the fighting. Desperately...