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1948 Samuelson's Economics mainstreams the Keynesian synthesis 1 cit. Paul Samuelson's Economics: An Introductory Analysis first appeared in 1948 and became the defining economics textbook for generations of students. Its later editions popularized the neoclassical synthesis: Keynesian demand management for macroeconomic slumps, combined with neoclassical tools for ordinary market analysis. economy / science ●●●●

1949 to April 1998 Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law ai_extracted 1 cit. The Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law, promulgated in 1949, continued the series of control laws begun with the Capital Flight Prevention Law of 1932 and remained in force until April 1998. ●●●

February 1949 to April 1949 Dodge mission and the Dodge plan ai_extracted 1 cit. Joseph Dodge, president of Detroit Bank, was sent to Japan from February to April 1949 as adviser to SCAP; his plan, passed unaltered by parliament, prescribed an overbalanced budget, ended deficit spending, and decreed the end of the Reconstruction Finance Bank. ●●●●

1949 Bank of Japan Policy Board introduced ai_extracted 1 cit. A nominal Policy Board was introduced at the Bank of Japan in 1949, but Ichimada ensured it was placed inside the central bank and under its control, creating a sleeping board that made no important decisions. ●●●

June 1949 Bank of Japan Policy Board established ai_extracted 1 cit. The Bank of Japan's Policy Board was established in June 1949, the only change made to the wartime BoJ Law of 1942 until that law was scrapped in 1998; it was widely known as a sleeping board. ●●●

April 1949 Yen fixed at 360 per dollar ai_extracted 1 cit. On the recommendation of Detroit bank president Joseph Dodge, a single fixed exchange rate of 360 yen to the dollar was set in April 1949, weaker than an earlier U.S. mission had recommended and a lasting boost to Japanese exporters. ●●●●

1949 Berlin airlift ends as ground routes reopen ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the airlift delivered more than 1.6 million tons of freight, the Soviet blockade was defeated and the ground routes to Berlin were reopened on 12 May 1949. ●●

1949 West German elections and Adenauer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The West German elections of 14 August 1949 gave the Christian Democrats a plurality; Konrad Adenauer, an anti-Nazi jailed by Hitler, became chancellor by a single vote and held the post until 1963. ●●

1949 Nationalist government flees to Taiwan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1949 the Communist victories drove Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government from the mainland to Taiwan, where the U.S. Seventh Fleet later shielded it. ●●

1949 Forrestal, first Secretary of Defense, resigns and dies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story James Forrestal, made the first Secretary of Defense in 1947, reversed his views on unification, broke down under the strain, resigned in 1949, and soon committed suicide. ●●

1949 NATO founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed by the treaty of 4 April 1949 signed in Washington, binding the U.S., Canada, and ten West European states in mutual defense. ●●

1949 Quigley: China lost through Chiang's own weakness ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues Mao won China because of the incompetence and corruption of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, not through any conspiracy in the State Department, and would have won whatever American aid was given. ●●

1949 Truman announces the first Soviet atomic bomb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After U.S. air monitoring detected a radioactive cloud from Soviet Asia, Truman announced on 23 September 1949 that an atomic explosion had occurred in the USSR. ●●

1949 United Nations headquarters built ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The United Nations headquarters was built in 1949 on 17 acres in New York City donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Wood emphasizes the Rockefeller financial ties to the U.N. ●●

1949 Federal urban renewal legislation enables public-private partnerships ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Wood cites the original 1949 federal urban renewal legislation, which let redevelopment authorities seize land by eminent domain and resell it cheaply to private corporations, as an early public-private partnership model. ●●

1949 Aspen Institute founded ai_extracted 1 cit. The Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies was founded in 1949 by Giuseppe Borgese, Robert M. Hutchins and Walter Paepcke. Wood ties its later funding and boards to the Trilateral Commission. ●●

1949 George Orwell finishes Nineteen Eighty-Four ai_extracted 1 cit. no story George Orwell finished Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, coining the word Orwellian. Wood counts it, with Brave New World, among the works foreseeing technocratic control. ●●

1949 Max Otto publishes Science and the Moral Life, 1949 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Max Otto's 1949 essay Science and the Moral Life, which argued businessmen had quietly revolutionized the idea of education toward consumption. ●●

1949 Congress passes the CIA Act of 1949 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress rammed through the CIA Act on May 27, 1949, giving the agency unprecedented powers to conduct secret operations with secret budgets and untraceable funds, with minimal oversight. ●●

1949 Allen Dulles visits Iran to meet the Shah ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Allen Dulles traveled to Iran in 1949 for meetings with the Shah and his court to secure an OCI contract. ●●

1949 Howard Unruh's shooting rampage in Camden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Psychotic veteran Howard B. Unruh goes on shooting rampage in Camden, New Jersey, killing thirteen people; stops when newspaper editor calls him ●●

1949 Chinese Communist Party reestablishes central state ai_extracted 1 cit. no story While state authority did break down briefly in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s during the period of warlordism, civil war, and Japanese occupation, a strong centralized state was soon reestablished under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. ●●

1949 Greek Communist guerrillas declare ceasefire ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But by October 1949, foreseeing nothing but more loss of lives to a vastly superior destruction- machine, the guerrillas announced over their radio a “cease fire” ●●

1949 CIA backs the 1949 coup in Syria ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the same book, Copeland asserts that the CIA, with 404 Notes himself personally involved, directed a coup in Syria in 1949 ●●

1949 Iran bans the Tudeh Party ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Tudeh Party had been declared illegal in 1949 and Mossadegh had not lifted that ban although he allowed the party to operate openly, at least to some extent because of his democratic convictions, and had appointed some Tudeh sympathizers to gover ●●

1949 West Germany founded under Allied occupation ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The new West German state came into being under a military occupation that controlled its foreign trade, foreign policy and defence, even as its cartels were formally broken up. ●●

1950 to 1951 Postal-savings-funded government banks created ai_extracted 1 cit. Following the end of the Reconstruction Finance Bank, government banks such as the Japan Export Bank in 1950 and the Japan Development Bank in 1951 were funded from postal savings, leaving them without power to create credit. ●●

18 July 1950 UNESCO Statement on Race rejects the pseudoscience debunked 4 cit. UNESCO published its 1950 Statement on Race, arguing that for practical social purposes race was "not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth" and rejecting racial hierarchy after Nazism and genocide. A 1951 follow-up kept the antiracist conclusion while clarifying the biological wording. science / society ●●●

1950 West German currency reform ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley identifies the West German currency reform as the signal for the postwar German economic revival, encouraging investment and offering large profits through the state's tax policies. ●●

1950 Sino-Soviet mutual-assistance treaty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After Mao and Stalin met in Moscow, a Sino-Soviet mutual-assistance treaty was signed on 14 February 1950, granting China aid while Stalin sought to steer its development. ●●

1950 Quigley: Wall Street foundations financed the IPR ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts the Institute of Pacific Relations was funded largely by the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, which he describes as interlocking groups controlled by Morgan and Rockefeller Wall Street interests. ●●

1950 Truman orders development of the hydrogen bomb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 31 January 1950 Truman ordered the AEC to proceed with the hydrogen bomb while also continuing varied A-weapons work, a triple order often misrepresented as a single crash H-bomb program. ●●

1950 Fuchs confession and McCarthy's Wheeling speech ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley links the January-February 1950 chronology: Klaus Fuchs confessed to atomic espionage on 27 January, Truman ordered the H-bomb four days later, and McCarthy made his first accusations at Wheeling nine days after that. ●●

1950 NSC 68 accepted ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1950 the National Security Council accepted NSC 68, drafted by Paul Nitze's State Department staff, calling for a balanced defense buildup, though funded at only $18 billion. ●●

1950 Acheson's defense-perimeter speech ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 12 January 1950 Acheson accepted MacArthur's Far East defense perimeter, distinguishing areas the U.S. would defend unilaterally from those it would defend collectively. ●●

1950 North Korea invades South Korea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 25 June 1950, after an artillery bombardment, 60,000 North Koreans led by Soviet tanks crossed the 38th parallel against lightly armed South Korean troops, opening the Korean War. ●●

1950 UN votes collective force in Korea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 27 June 1950 the Security Council, with the Soviet delegate absent, condemned the aggression and called on members to aid South Korea; Truman ordered forces into action and sent the Seventh Fleet to the Formosa Strait. ●●

1950 Inchon landing ai_extracted 1 cit. MacArthur's amphibious landing at Inchon in September 1950 achieved tactical surprise; Marines captured Seoul on 22 September and trapped much of the North Korean force. ●●

1950 Chinese intervention in Korea begins ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Chinese decision to intervene in North Korea began on 15 October 1950, nine days after American troops crossed the 38th parallel. ●●

1950 Chinese counteroffensive in Korea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On 26 November 1950 a Chinese offensive of 33 divisions counterattacked into the gap between MacArthur's two advancing wings just as they reached the Yalu. ●●

1950 Red Chinese-Soviet treaty of February 1950 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only when the Communists were achieving final victory did Stalin accept a Communist regime in China, seeking to bring it under Soviet influence through the treaty of February 14, 1950. Quigley notes Stalin had earlier urged the Chinese Communists to seek a modus vivendi with Chiang. ●●

1950 Red China recognizes Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mao's new Communist government was the first state to recognize Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam in January 1950 and began sending military supplies. Since the United States backed France, the Vietnam struggle became a proxy conflict between America and Red China. ●●

1950 Sino-Soviet Alliance of 1950 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Sino-Soviet Alliance of February 1950 was accompanied by a $300 million economic development loan and the arrival of a 3,000-man Soviet military mission. Quigley stresses that all Soviet military aid to China was sold at high prices. ●●

1950 China's Land Reform Law eliminates landlordism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Before the Land Reform Law of June 1950, 10 percent of Chinese families owned 53 percent of farm land. The law eliminated landlords in brutal public trials, with at least three million executed, and redistributed land to poor peasant families. ●●

1950 Schuman proposes a common coal and steel authority, 1950 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1950 French foreign minister Robert Schuman proposed putting all French and German coal and steel production under a common High Authority, the seed of the European Coal and Steel Community. ●●

1950 Schuman proposes European coal and steel authority ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To bind the two countries in amity, the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, devised a plan in 1950 for a supranational coal and steel authority,... ●●

1950 Cary Grant undergoes LSD therapy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Between 1950 and 1965, Cary Grant received weekly LSD sessions with Dr. Mortimer Hartman at the Psychiatric Institute of Beverly Hills, reportedly introduced by his third wife Betsy Drake. ●●

1950 North Korean army invades South Korea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story il then a Japanese colony, had been liberated by the victorious Allies. The northern half of the Korean Peninsula was occupied by the Soviet Union, the southern half by the United States. Each established its form of government in its zone before it ●●

1950 Fermi poses his paradox at Los Alamos ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Edward Teller, Enrico Fermi asked the question “Where is everybody?” at Los Alamos in 1950, when the subject of extraterrestrial beings c ●●

1950 Indonesia's 1950 constitution sidelines Sukarno ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Indonesia’s original constitution upon independence in 1950 provided for multiparty democracy and sidelined President Sukarno as a weak figurehead. ●●

1950 Turing publishes Computing Machinery and Intelligence ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Turing's paper proposes what becomes known as the Turing Test, an operational definition of machine intelligence. ●●

May 1950 The Nairobi general strike of 1950 7 cit. In May 1950 the East African Trade Union Congress called a general strike in Nairobi that halted much of the city for days before the colonial authorities broke it. The strike followed the arrest of union leaders, including Fred Kubai and Makhan Singh, and marked a sharp rise in African labour militancy. It showed the organising power of the Nairobi networks the Forty Group drew on. economy / politics / society ●●

1950 British ban Mau Mau as violence spreads ai_extracted 1 cit. By 1950 the mass Kikuyu oathing campaign had grown impossible to hide, and the colonial government outlawed Mau Mau in August. Rather than suppressing the movement, the ban coincided with rising violence in the White Highlands, Nairobi, and the Kikuyu reserves. ●●

1950 Mau Mau Outlawed ai_extracted 1 cit. Alarmed by the spreading oathing campaign, the colonial government banned the Mau Mau society in August 1950 as an unregistered and therefore illegal organization. Officials still had little understanding of what the movement was, and prosecutions remained difficult because witnesses would not speak out. ●●

1950 Moi attends Jeans School, Kabete 1 cit. In 1950 Moi attended a course at Jeans School, Kabete, the colonial institution later associated with Kenya Institute of Administration. This deepened the administrative side of his education and placed him closer to the colonial state formation of African teachers and local officials. politics / society ●●

1950 Nairobi receives city status 6 cit. Nairobi was granted city status in 1950. By then it was already the colony's administrative, labour, transport and surveillance centre, with African locations and trade-union politics treated as security problems. politics / society ●●●

18 April 1951 Treaty of Paris (1951) 1 cit. Treaty creating the European Coal and Steel Community among France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux states, pooling the industries of war. It was the first step of European integration. diplomacy / economy / politics ●●●●

1951 McCarran Committee and the 'loss of China' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1951 the Senate's McCarran Committee sought to show that China had been lost to the Communists through the deliberate actions of Far East experts coordinated by the Institute of Pacific Relations. ●●

1951 Truman relieves MacArthur ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the MacArthur-Martin letter was read in Congress on 5 April 1951, Truman removed MacArthur from all his Far East commands five days later, provoking a storm of opposition. ●●

1951 Japanese peace treaty signed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Dulles obtained a peace treaty with Japan, signed 8 September 1951, that ended the Pacific war within a mutual-security structure and excluded the Soviet Union and Communist China. ●●

1951 McCarthy's Senate attack on Marshall ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 1951 Senator McCarthy delivered a 60,000-word Senate speech attacking General Marshall as steeped in falsehood and part of a vast conspiracy. ●●

1951 Assassination of Razmara and Iranian oil nationalization ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iranian opposition to nationalization collapsed in March 1951 when Prime Minister Ali Razmara and his education minister were assassinated within two weeks. The nationalization law passed the following month and Mossadegh was appointed prime minister to carry it out. ●●

1951 American occupation reforms Japanese agriculture ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The reorganization of Japanese agriculture, largely due to the American Military Occupation (SCAP), raised the index of agricultural production 40 percent in the decade 1951-1961. Quigley calls the Japanese agrarian reform one of the remarkable economic transformations of the century. ●●

1951 Senate subcommittee investigates the IPR ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book cites a 1951 Senate Judiciary subcommittee that sought to show China had been lost to Communists through a group of Far East experts tied to the Institute of Pacific Relations. It presents the IPR as an instrument of the Network. ●●

1951 CIC gives Klaus Barbie passage to Argentina ai_extracted 1 cit. no story That, in the final analysis, is why the CIC chose to provide Barbie with a new identity and safe passage to Argentina in 1951, while thousands of other ex-Nazis who had been “of interest” to the CIC at one time or another have simply lived out their lives in Germany. ●●

1951 First Lodge Act recruits arrive at Camp Kilmer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Italians ? The first known group of Lodge Act recruits arrived by a military airlift at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, in October 1951. Most were Ukrainians and Poles, but virtually ever... ●●

1951 Time names Mossadegh Man of the Year ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Mohammad Mossadegh, Iran's nationalist prime minister, was recognized by Time magazine as the most influential figure of 1951, chosen over major world leaders. ●●

1951 Mossadegh becomes Iran's prime minister ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Frustrated with British exploitation of Iranian oil reserves, Iranians selected Mohammad Mossadegh as prime minister to challenge the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. ●●

1951 Mohammad Mossadegh comes to power in Iran ai_extracted 1 cit. no story They carried an outspokenly idealistic Iranian, Mohammad Mossadegh, to power in the spring of 1951 (1951) ●●

1951 General strike paralyzes colonial Grenada ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Grenada had been a relatively quiet British colony for more than a century when, at the beginning of 1951, it was paralyzed by a general strike (1951) ●●

1951 Bedell Smith names Dulles deputy director of plans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CIA Director Bedell Smith appointed Allen Dulles as deputy director of plans to control Wisner's sprawling covert operations. ●●

1951 Ridgway's spring offensive retakes Seoul ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the spring of 1951, a new American offensive under General Ridgway was grinding its way north using traditional American tactics of attrition. It had liberated Seoul and crossed the 38th Parallel when the communists proposed armistice negotiations. ●●

1951 Communists propose Korean armistice talks ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 1951, the communists proposed armistice negotiations in Korea. Washington ordered an end to offensive action, with operations at battalion level and above requiring approval by the Supreme Commander. ●●

1951 MANIAC computer completed and first tested ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The new machine was christened MANIAC (Mathematical and Numerical Integrator and Computer) and put to its first test, during the summer of 1951, with ●●

1951 Hannah Arendt publishes The Origins of Totalitarianism ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff cites Arendt's groundbreaking analysis as the first scholarly attempt to comprehend totalitarianism's unprecedented systematic violence and the destruction of human autonomy. ●●

1951 B.F. Skinner publishes Science and Human Behavior ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zuboff details Skinner's 1951 work establishing that all human action—choice, problem-solving, self-knowledge—must be analyzed through manipulation of external environmental variables. ●●

1951 West German law reinstates former Nazi civil servants ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A federal law passed in 1951 granted all regular civil servants, including those with Nazi backgrounds and those expelled by East Germany, a right to reinstatement. ●●

1951 Jacobo Arbenz takes office as Guatemalan president ai_extracted 1 cit. The Guatemalan president, who took office in March 1951 after being elected by a wide mar-gin, had no special contact or spiritual/ideological ties with the Soviet Union or the rest of the Communist bloc ●●

1951 Iran nationalizes oil and elects Mossadegh premier ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1951, the bill for nationalization was passed, and at the end of April Mossadegh was elected prime minister by a large majority of Parliament ●●

c. 1951 The Muhimu central committee is formed 4 cit. The militant wing set up a secret central committee in Nairobi known as Muhimu, Swahili for important, a name chosen to blend in with ordinary party business. Accounts name Eliud Mutonyi as chairman and Isaac Gathanju as secretary, with Bildad Kaggia, Fred Kubai and Paul Ngei among its members. Muhimu planned and coordinated oathing and the shift to armed methods. politics ●●●

c. 1951 Oathing and arms procurement in Nairobi 6 cit. Under the Muhimu committee, mass oathing spread through Nairobi's African locations to bind people to the movement and enforce secrecy. Forty Group men helped run the oath ceremonies and worked to gather guns and money for the coming fight. The city became the organising centre for what colonial records would soon call Mau Mau. politics / war ●●

1951 Kibaki studies economics at Makerere 1 cit. Kibaki entered Makerere University College in 1951 and studied economics, history and political science. He became active in student politics, including the Kenya Students Association and the Makerere Students Guild, and graduated in 1955 with first-class honours in economics. Makerere gave him both an economics foundation and an early decolonization political network. economy / politics ●●●●

1952 Enterprise Rationalization Promotion Law ai_extracted 1 cit. The Enterprise Rationalization Promotion Law of 1952 established very high depreciation rates for important machinery, creating large tax incentives to accelerate capital investment; its origin lay in the wartime Price Compensation System of 1943. ●●

1952 Araki appointed ambassador to the United States ai_extracted 1 cit. In 1952, shortly after the ban on suspected war criminals holding public office was lifted in 1951, Araki was appointed Japan's ambassador to the United States, the most important diplomatic post. ●●

1952 Dulles's 'A Policy of Boldness' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In his May 1952 Life article 'A Policy of Boldness,' Dulles argued that containment must be replaced by 'liberation,' framing impatience with foreign problems. ●●

1952 'Mike' thermonuclear explosion at Eniwetok ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Teller-Ulam design was tested in the 'Mike' thermonuclear shot at Eniwetok on 1 November 1952, yielding about ten megatons but weighing 65 tons and far from a deliverable bomb. ●●

1952 Eisenhower elected president ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eisenhower won the November 1952 election, aided by a Madison Avenue campaign mobilizing discontent and by his pledge, on Emmet Hughes's suggestion, to go to Korea to make peace. ●●

1952 Japanese Communist Party collapses in 1952 elections ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley notes that the growing prosperity of Japan and the success of Ladejinsky's land reforms steadily reduced Communist influence. The Communist Party of Japan won under 3 percent of the vote in the October 1952 elections and lost all twenty-two of its Diet seats. ●●

1952 Cairo riots of January 1952 burn British landmarks ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 26, 1952, riots in Cairo burned about four hundred buildings, including Shepheard's Hotel, the center of British tourist life. The disturbances shattered the Egyptian political system and precipitated the fall of the Nahas government. ●●

1952 Farouk forced to abdicate in Egyptian revolution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After young officers seized the army headquarters and government on July 22, 1952, King Farouk was forced to abdicate four days later with tanks surrounding his palace and was sent into exile. The revolution was engineered by a small group led by Nasser. ●●

1952 Egyptian Agrarian Law of 1952 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Agrarian Law of September 1952 sought to relieve the peasantry and push landlords to shift wealth from land into industry, setting a maximum landholding of 315 acres per family. It shaped much of the Nasser regime's subsequent economic policy. ●●

1952 Bolivian revolution of 1952 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the MNR won the largest vote in 1951 but was barred from power, the officers' junta split and was overthrown by an uprising in April 1952. Paz Estenssoro returned from exile to become president, and the mines and large estates were soon nationalized or broken up. ●●

1952 Guatemalan land reform targets United Fruit ai_extracted 1 cit. no story US opposition to the Arbenz government arose once it became clear the Land Reform Act of June 1952 would apply to the United Fruit Company. About 400,000 acres of United Fruit land were later distributed to 180,000 peasants. ●●

1952 Batista seizes power in Cuba ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Cuban election scheduled for 1953 was prevented when Batista seized power once again in March 1952. His corrupt and violent rule provoked the rising tide of discontent that Castro would exploit. ●●

1952 Eisenhower nominated over Taft, 1952 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley describes the Eastern Establishment's ability to nominate Eisenhower over Taft in 1952 as a bitter defeat for the petty-bourgeois, Middle Western wing of the Republican Party. ●●

1952 Army investigates draftees who faked illiteracy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1952 the Army hired hundreds of psychologists to learn how 600,000 high school graduates had faked illiteracy, concluding a collapse in reading instruction had begun in the 1930s. ●●

1952 Truman creates the National Security Agency ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The NSA was established to master signals intelligence after the surprises of the Korean War. Its budget and power fell under the secretary of defense. ●●

1952 Kennedy defeats Lodge for Massachusetts Senate seat ai_extracted 3 cit. no story Lodge had represented Massachusetts in the Senate until 1952, when he lost his seat to Kennedy (1952) ●●

1952 CIA guerrilla team captured in Manchuria trap ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CIA dropped four-man Chinese guerrilla team into Manchuria in July 1952. The team was captured and turned against the CIA by Chinese forces. Rescue attempt killed two pilots; two CIA officers spent decades in Chinese prisons. ●●

1952 Puerto Rico becomes a free associated state ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Puerto Rico voted to accept free associated state status, a unique arrangement neither fully independent nor a state. After gaining the right to elect its own governor in 1948, Puerto Rico accepted this constitutional status in a 1952 referendum. ●●