Word: washington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months Washington had suspected that Western military secrets were leaking to Russia from France, the North Atlantic nations' most potent Continental ally and the top recipient of U.S. arms aid. By last week it was clear that such worries were at least partly justified. At least one top officer in the French army had been guilty of gross carelessness, or worse, in the handling of top-secret military information. The officer was General Georges Marie Joseph Revers, chief of the French general staff, who a fortnight ago was summarily sacked by the French cabinet...
...Department's first venture into the cartoon field is a simply written, effectively illustrated biography of eight Americans: Presidents Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, Poet Walt Whitman, Social Worker Jane Addams, Scientist George Washington Carver, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. The first shipment (65,000 copies), on the presses this week in Manhattan, will go to Viet-Nam. Later, 65,000 apiece will be sent to Indonesia, Korea and Thailand...
...Washington's Carnegie Institution, which does "significant research toward philosophical goals," has been looking at the earth philosophically for several years. Last week its annual yearbook reported progress on some significant problems...
White House Christmas Tree (Sat. 5 p.m., all networks). President Truman lights the Christmas tree in Washington by remote control from Independence...
...many a businessman the latest increase, smaller than the preceding three, was hardly a surprise. But in Washington, it stirred up Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who had not been at all critical while the Steelworkers were after their wage boost last summer. Cried he: "The steel industry is not justified in levying an increased tax on the whole economy of the U.S." Its leaders, he said, are doing more damage "to the free-enterprise system than all the crackpots have ever done." To get an explanation, O'Mahoney asked Ben Fairless to appear before a congressional...