Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a tribute to the reviewer of Marcelino [Nov. 26]. The piece is refreshingly reverent in this irreverent age and beautifully written. Since some of the best contemporary writing in the U.S. is done for TIME, why not publish an anthology of selections for college and university...
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TIME was when the maintenance problem of armies consisted of little more than shoeing horses and hammering out the dents in a knight's armor. But in today's supersonic and electronic age, the task of caring for a stable of increasingly complex weapons and equipment has become a major problem for the military, and a challenge and opportunity for private industry. Of the Defense Department's $7 billion maintenance budget in fiscal 1956, nearly $1.4 billion was for overhauling, and a fourth of this went to U.S. business for its part in maintaining the nation...
...biggest problems of the services is the need to train a man for two or three years for a technical job, only to lose him to private industry a few months later. This is a crucial loss in the supersonic age: while it took only two men to check out the 24 electronic boxes in the older F86D, it requires ten to check the F102B's 210 electronic boxes. Private industry strongly believes that a smarter and cheaper way would be to let business do the job; the military should follow the trend in private business, where many firms...
...days of the Korean war, it has increased private contracts to nearly 60% of the estimated $772 million it will spend (exclusive of servicemen's pay) on maintenance in fiscal 1957. While much of this was made necessary by the increasing complexity of aeronautical equipment and the short age of technicians, the Air Force is convinced that it is nonetheless getting a bargain-even though private contracts often cost more than military work. The expensive alternative, the Air Force recognizes, would be to invest heavily in new maintenance plants, hire more civil-service employees. The Air Force can even...