Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statement of Secretary Dulles at Friday's hearings strikes a note of comparative rationality. Although his views on Russia's sudden change of philosophy appear overly-optimistic, at least his position on the shipment of arms to the Middle East is heartening. While defending the questionable Saudia Arabian tank shipment, he emphasized that arms must not be sent to Israel or to countries directly adjacent because this would precipitate an arms race, in which Israel could not hope to hold her own. Forthright as this statement may be, however, the State Department's encouragement of the shipment of French jets...
...with U.S. loans. In addition, a whole group of strategic machine tools had been released. Communist buyers picked up models in Europe, sent them home to be copied, even bought several $350,000 horizontal boring and milling machines from Britain that can handle any job from engine parts to tank turrets...
Later this month, Professor Kurt Tank, former Luftwaffe designer, sets off with a staff of 20 assistants under a contract to build up India's aircraft industry. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard will visit Britain Feb. 20-25 to discuss possible concerted counteraction against the Communist trade offensive...
...justify building a pipeline to compete with his own tank cars, S.P. President Donald Joseph Russell, 56, has a businessman's answer: "In two or three years, the refineries would have built a pipeline. If Southern Pacific is going to lose business, I want to be sure we are losing it to ourselves...
...this story has been told by the U.S. Department of the Army and by Major General Charles Willoughby, Mac-Arthur's chief of intelligence. Author Meissner fills in some of the human reality from the point of view of a loyal German officer (he later commanded a tank against the Russians) who was completely hornswoggled by a master spy. In Tokyo in the late '303, Attache Meissner became friendly with "Correspondent" Sorge, who even was a guest at Meissner's wedding. Later, as a P.W. in an Allied camp, Meissner met others who had crossed Sorge...