Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Questioned in the witness chair about mob-union connections, Teitelbaum tried to duck under the Fifth Amendment and the First, Sixth and Sixteenth. Back in River Forest, glued to their TV sets for the Chicago telecast of the hearings, Tony Accardo's neighbors began to catch a glimpse of how he earns his living...
...initial strategic strikes by modern jet bombers, intercontinental and intermediate range rockets and missiles, and submarine-launched missiles, will wreak devastation upon both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and upon their chief allies. But does mutual devastation spell mutual defeat? The Soviets answer: no. The priority strikes will destroy the enemy's strategic air and missile bases insofar as these are known. Major cities and industrial centers, on a lower level of priority, will also suffer heavily. Radiological and bacteriological weapons may be used. But this enormous mutual destruction will probably consume the major portion of the respective...
...Thus the Soviets would strive to achieve at least a favorable 'draw' by occupying the Eurasian continent, and exploiting such resources as might still be available to restore some of the Soviet Union's losses. The shrunken and devastated Free World would be entirely relegated to the Western Hemisphere...
...massive military loss undergone by the Soviet Union in 1941, in a relatively brief span of time, was more comparable to the loss from a nuclear assault than anything else experienced by a great power in modern times. The Soviets lost from their control 40% of their population, 40% of their grain production, approximately 60% of their coal, iron, steel and aluminum output, and 95% or more of certain key military industries, such as ball-bearing production. They lost 4,000,000 soldiers, dead, wounded or prisoners, and over two-thirds of their tanks and aircraft." A nuclear holocaust might...
...military purpose is to "deter and defeat attack." Russian military objectives are shaped by a fundamental objective: "To advance the power of the Soviet Union in whatever ways are most expedient so long as the survival of the Soviet power itself is not endangered...