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...Strategic Air Force (B-36s and B-29s) to carry the atom bomb, which, though not in action, was and still is the U.S.'s main bet. About 65% of all procurement went to the Air Force last year...
Part of the answer was that the U.S. armed forces were designed for another kind of war: an all-out war in which a direct attack by Moscow was to be directly answered by atom-bomb-packed B-36s. The effectiveness of that kind of force had not been disproved by first week setbacks in Korea. But already Louis Johnson's touted economy program was looking downright absurd. Last week, to meet the 1951 budget limitations dictated by Johnson, the Navy decommissioned the last of 14 large carrier air groups, reducing its total groups to nine...
...true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force also had eleven groups of other bombers (about 330 B-29s and B-50s), and some 33 groups of heavy and medium reconnaissance, fighter, troop carrier and other miscellaneous aircraft...
...shares soared as fast as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm. From 13s.6d. ($2.72) the shares rose to a top of 36s. ($7.25), giving whopping paper profits to Free State Gold Areas' principal owner, Joseph Milne...
...rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent 16 huge, cigar-shaped B-36s lumbering overhead...