Word: strains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testing long-range rockets in horizontal flight puts a strain on geography. Many vertical flights have been made from White Sands, N.Mex., but not even in the thinly inhabited Southwest is there an area where a rocket can be fired for distance. So last week the Air Force made its first horizontal rocket test from Cocoa, Fla. (east of Orlando), firing a two-stage rocket over the empty Atlantic north of the Bahamas...
...Soviet Union did. "I shall not attempt to predict the course of events," said Harry Truman. "But I am sure that those who have it in their power to unleash or withhold acts of armed aggression must realize that new recourse to aggression in the world today might well strain to the breaking point the fabric of world peace...
Tactics & Techniques. King used Canada's new freedom of action in foreign affairs to draw his country closer to the U.S., integrating Canadian and U.S. defense systems and their wartime economies. Through all the changes in Canada's foreign relations and in the strain of World War II, he contrived to keep the divergent French-speaking and Anglo-Saxon parts of Canada together behind him. Of all his achievements, King rated this preservation of the country's unity as the greatest...
...spare as a cornstalk. His greyness of face was due to an intestinal bug which he had picked up during his most recent trip to Japan. Partly because of his own demands to be shown everything, he was sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...
This pressure put a new kind of strain on an economy which, even before the Korean war began, had spurted to a peacetime high. In June, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the index of industrial production had pushed to 197, two points above the November 1948 peak. The U.S. consumer also had plenty of cash with which to buy goods; the Commerce Department reported that wage and salary payments in May had reached a yearly rate of $139.2 billion, another peacetime record...