Korean War

These were the years when whatever could be made could be sold at a profit. The United States was involved in a world war followed by a postwar business boom and the Korean War. Then came 1958. The Korean War had been over for five years. The United States was in the midst of a major recession.. The chemical industry that previously could do no wrong found that all of a sudden its profits were declining rapidly. A blow to the pocketbook causes a speedy reaction. A couple of major chemical concerns responded by firing 10% of salaried employees. This was the end of an era. 

Resistance to insecticides has drawn global attention since the Korean War in 1950 when the mass use of organic synthetic insecticides, such as DDT and BHC, against agricultural pests and sanitary pests became common. Organophosphorus compounds and carbamates were used thereafter, but invited problems of safety concerns and insect resistance. Synthetic pyrethroids were watched with keen interest as alternatives and have become used widely not only for sanitary pests but also agricultural pests. The development of resistance to synthetic pyrethroids is also not a rare phenomenon and has spread all over the world. 

It was] a period which probably had as many changes, programs, and problems as any comparable period in history post-World War II the Korean War the Cold War reorganization of Department of Defense reorganizations of Department of the Army the war in Vietnam and major advances in medicine, the sciences, nuclear weapons, missiles and aircraft. The sheer volume and frequency of change alone provided some indication of the magnitude of the task to be performed. From the outset, the research effort proved to be difficult and cumbersome. 

At the end of delay period ignition or explosion takes place and this would initiate the chge of expl located under Titryl (See Fig). Delays depend on the amt of w used and can be from 3 to 210 minutes] Ad 80a) R. Marsh, Ordn 36, 75-81(1951) (Russian Ordnance as judged by weapons captured during the Korean War) Ad 81) T. Sakamara, JapanP 147(1951) CA 46, 11690(1952)... 

Rocket Launcher, 3.5 inch, is the modern successor of original 2.36 inch launcher. Used successfully during Korean War... 

How did the Korean War differ from the Vietnam War What were the causes and results of each... 

Names of historical events Civil War, Korean War, American Revolution... 

Michael Hickey, The Korean War The West Confronts Communism (London John Murray, 1999), pp.220—33, 361. 

Manpower in the armed forces and defence expenditure as a proportion of GDP were reduced until 1950 (see tables 5.2 and 5.3). The fears provoked by the outbreak of the Korean War reversed these trends. On 26 July 1950 the United States asked NATO governments what additional expenditure they intended to carry out on their own, and how... 

The 1957 Defence White Paper made clear that there would be fewer research and development projects and production orders for military aircraft in future. In July 1957 a backgroimd paper was circulated to the Cabinet listing a number of well-known aircraft firms where workers were likely to be made redundant as a result. It was expected that over the next four or five years the numbers employed in the manufacture of airframes, aero-engines and related equipment, excluding electrical equipment, would fall by about 100,000 to about 150,000, or what had been the level before the Korean War. ° The programmes for guided... 

After WWU the activities of the Dept were greatly reduced, but were again increased when the Korean War started (1950). At this time the Army Ordnance Department was renamed the Army Ordnance Corps... 

The Korean War caused the demand for aviation alkylate to jump again in 1950, but only about 35 alkylation units were in operation at the... 

It seems that no work on combustible and consumable cartridge cases was done in US until after the Korean War. Gen Ghormley states in his paper published in 1962(Ref 15,p 233), that atxmt 10 years ago (i.e. 1952), the Army Ordnance Corps began to support a resear ch program on combustible cartridge cases, which was carried out at Picatinny Arsenal, Dover,... 

As farm labor became less available or too costly following World War II and the Korean War, atrazine allowed the McCauleys to manage their weed problems more efficiently and with less labor. Also, atrazine allowed the McCauleys to expand their com acreage greatly, to begin reduced tillage practices, and to become better overall farm managers. 

Prior to the Second World War, it was primarily the European powers who used poison gas. After the Second World War old Europe was increasingly replaced by the United States which, it can be argued, took on the policing of Third World countries, and such policing meant that chemical weapons were used in both Korea and Vietnam. Indeed, the United States had, for many decades prior to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, been the main producer, purveyor and user of chemical weapons. However, this was generally hidden from public view until the 1960s when the United States use of chemical weapons in Vietnam was exposed.26... 

In June 1950, with the onset of the Korean War, the American Chemical Corps participated in its first military action since 1918. The Corps quickly implemented an increased procurement programme to supply the army with a chemical capability and defensive equipment. The new chief of the corps concluded that the need for such an ability was the number one lesson learned from the Second World War It required the experiences of World War II to demonstrate that the most important basic factor in a nation s military strength is its war production potential and ability to convert smoothly and quickly its industry, manpower and other economic resources. 27 Within a short time, however, the army s... 

The Chinese Communists would later carry on such accusations against the Japanese, but the Chinese Communists also made similar accusations against the Americans during the Korean War. 

Resorcinolic adhesives are either straight resorcinolic resins, or phenol-resorcinol copolymers. When military requirements dominated the field, during and after World War II, most of the beams were produced from oak, and the straight resorcinol resins were preferred. By the time of the Korean War, excellent phenol-resorcinol types had been developed. These glues were used in the production of the all-wood minesweepers used in naval operations. They demonstrated a high degree of durability in their many years of exposure to all the rigors of the Seven Seas. 

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