Word: unites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week France's Reconstruction Ministry announced "Operation Million," a scheme to provide 25,000 small, three-room apartments to low-income families at a cost of 1,000,000 francs ($2,850) per unit. Warned the ministry: "Success . . . will depend mainly upon the team spirit which will animate civil servants, local authorities, architects, contractors, technicians and artisans." At week's end, French architects, displeased by the size of the fee offered them, notified the ministry that Operation Million did not interest them...
...government has begun a drive against such corruption in Tuscany (80% of whose towns are Red-governed). By last week 56 mayors and local administrators had been put in jail. Not all were Communists, but most were. "McCarthy-ism," cried the Communist L'Unità, in incoherent rage. The campaign had a double effect: it hurt the Communist treasury and exposed the Communist moral...
...could join a reserve unit for at least 24 months. Then he would enter a selective reserve for six years. Selective reserves can be called only during "secondary mobilization," after active forces have entered battle...
...City of Hope's leukemia unit comprises 32 beds, an outpatient department and scattered laboratories, where its chief, Dr. Howard Richard Bierman, and a team of a dozen assistants carry on treatment and research. New Jersey-born, St. Louis-trained Dr. Bierman is already a veteran (at 39) of investigation into blood cells, and something of a maverick among leukemia specialists...
COMBAT ACTIONS IN KOREA, by Captain Russell A. Gugeler, contained some of the best descriptions of small-unit warfare yet printed...