Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Controlling the hoopla, like organists on the keyboard, throwing in an extra furioso here and an obbligato there, were the boys at headquarters. On the Hilton's eleventh floor, the Eisenhower GHQ was somewhat disorganized but fervent."Demonstration materials" went out by the truckload. As one load of 600 Eisenhower hats was sent to the front, Volunteer Worker George McMullen said: "Don't worry, we'll have the bodies to go under those hats. Bodies are our job. We know just where to call when we need, let's say 150 bodies for a demonstration...
State of Mind Warned General Ridgway: "There is a truckload of minutiae still to be discussed." Communist truce mechanics, equipped with monkey wrenches, seemed determined to keep the truck stalled. Last week they: 1) threatened to make a truce issue of Peking's charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted...
Coup. Near Matamoros, Mexico, customs inspectors found contraband needles in a truckload...
...issue came to its sticking point on a dirt road to Kaesong, where Communist soldiers with Tommy guns halted a U.N. convoy because it included a truckload of reporters. That was but an incident. The larger fact was that the Communists were insolently creating an atmosphere of victors receiving the vanquished. In the swept-eaved building which used to be the Reai Bong Chang restaurant, the U.N.'s negotiators met under the guns of Communist guards. Unarmed, U.N. negotiators drove under a white flag where armed Communists let them drive...
...reserved." Then Joy read a sharp message from Ridgway: "The presence of ... newsmen at a conference of such major importance to the entire world is considered an inherent right by members of the United Nations . . ." Matt Ridgway had decided to force the issue. Joy told the Reds that a truckload of 20 newsmen would go to Kaesong next...