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...both Harry Truman and Bernard Baruch agreed go hand in hand with price control. Pennsylvania's Republican John Kunkel announced in the House that he was going to introduce an all-out, Baruch-like control bill. Since this reversed the Republicans' previous stand, Truman Democrats suspected a trap. There was no machinery ready to ration all goods and police all prices across the land; the Administration feared chaos would result. Democrats well remembered their 1946 congressional defeat (when the G.O.P slogan was "Had enough?"); controls were apt to boomerang. On the other hand, if an uncontrolled economy...
...western front, the Communists launched flanking movements in an effort to trap the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division in the Sobaek Mountains. But the 1st Cavalry, in a crafty withdrawal across to the east bank of the Naktong River, escaped a two-pronged Red drive from the west and north. While the G.I.s of the 1st Cavalry dug in, the Communists made a series of bloody, small-scale thrusts across the river. Their goal : the South Korean provisional capital of Taegu, only seven miles from the Naktong...
Determined to keep strategic goods from getting into Red Korea through the service entrance, the U.S. Commerce Department revoked all licenses for U.S. trading with Communist China. Then, to guard the trap doors as well, Commerce placed a close watch on the shipment of U.S. oil refining and production equipment to Latin America, on the hunch that some was being reshipped to Asia...
Wrong Time of Day. But the Kremlin (so many of the Western experts think) just could not believe that the U.S. could be so stupid as to let Formosa fall. They believed the Washington statements on Korea, but they suspected a trap in the bland way the U.S. had informed the world that it would not help Chiang Kai-shek defend Formosa...
...months ago, Luca heard that Giuliano was moving down from the hills towards the vineyards of the south. The colonel ordered all his men in the area out of uniform and let it-be known that he himself was off to Rome. Then he baited a trap for Giuliano's vanity. He sent a troop of carabinieri into the wine district camouflaged as a moving picture unit. They were ordered to spread the word that they were making a picture about bandits. The unit was told to drop strong hints that a leading role might be available for Giuliano...