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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From World War II until 1953, our country's long-range ballistic missile program was as dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...
Menderes is gambling that he can create an industrialized Turkey in a matter of years without quite slipping over the brink into economic disaster. So far, he is still ahead on his gamble. In his heedless impatience, he has achieved things that more reasonable men would never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been...
...despite their plans for Venezuela's political future, the three leaders were in no hurry to dash home to put them into effect all at once. Instead, Betancourt and Caldera waited patiently while Villalba went ahead to test...
Prestige, Not Profit. The Soviets plug Aeroflot as "the only line in the world with mass and regular exploitation of jets." To fly into the jet age ahead of the West, Aeroflot adapted Designer Andrei Tupolev's twin-jet Badger medium-range bombers to regular commercial service. The TU-104 looks like a Victorian Pullman car with ornate chandeliers, overstuffed seats, brass serving trays and old-time chain-flush toilets. But overnight it has changed Aeroflot from a lowly regarded, primarily domestic line into a major international threat. Aeroflot has about 50 TU-104s, flies them regularly to East...
Completing the 30-gate course in a total of 224.7 seconds, the team was 6.5 seconds ahead of runner-up Tufts in the ten-team "B" League meet. The victory was accomplished without sophomore captain Don Stephenson or Charles Stewart, another sophomore standout...