Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squeeze Play. The weight and suddenness of the offensive at least momentarily stunned the Communists. At the southwest end of the active front, the British Commonwealth Division, going into action as a combined unit for the first time, flanked by the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and the Greek battalion, took up the Red recoil, achieved its objectives on the second day. The U.S. 3rd Division breached the Red line northwest of Chorwon. Fierce fighting developed at the northeast end, along the long line of rugged peaks of Heartbreak Ridge...
...They asked me to come over as soon as they got the message," U.S. Ambassador George Wadsworth recalls. "They asked me how big a unit they should send. Before I could answer, they told me they'd decided on a division as a starter. It took some talking to get them down to a brigade, which at that time was the largest unit we could equip and send off right away...
Today most Turks have no doubts about why they have been accepted into the Western community of nations. Ahmet Emin Yalman, independent, Western-minded (Columbia-educated) editor of the Istanbul Vatan (The Motherland), wrote: "It was the troops in Korea that paved the way [into NATO]. Had the unit not been sent to Korea, Turkey would have remained a second-rate state...
...cracker at Gulf's main refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, will now build a still bigger one (63,000 bbls. a day) at Gulf's Philadelphia refinery. He will also build the world's biggest (125,000 bbls. per day) atmospheric and vacuum crude-oil "topping" unit (which skims off the lighter components of crude). The result will boost the military's supply of high-octane gasoline by 42,000 gals, daily. But Swensrud also has his eye on a longer-range peacetime market: the high-compression auto engine...
Only eight graduate students have enrolled in the University's Air Force R.O.T.C. unit, which was opened this year for the first time since 1945 to non-College...