Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a worm's-eye view of the world conflict and cut foreign aid, hamstring reciprocal trade and emasculate our information program, I can tell you that the billions we spend for missiles and submarines and aircraft will be going right down a rathole. And mark my words, if the Communists gain control of the people and resources of the uncommitted nations of the world, they will hold the whip hand...
...decided to dig deeply into the state of the U.S. Navy's antisubmarine defenses. Reason: secret CIA estimates of the Soviet Union's ability to attack U.S. cities with submarine-launched nuclear missiles, secret suspicions that the Navy has been spending too much money on spectacular aircraft-carrier plans, too little on undersea and antisubmarine warfare. High on the committee's list of possible recommendations: a change of the Pentagon's present Joint Chiefs of Staff system to something akin to a Defense Department planning staff recommended by Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime director of the Office...
...City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries that will probably go up for sale before the end of the year: Liberty Aircraft Products Corp. of Farmingdale, N.Y. and radiomaking Hallicrafters Co. of Chicago...
Capital likes the Viscount as an aircraft, and its estimates of operating costs proved out almost to the penny. The trouble is its size. The Viscount's 44-seat capacity puts it at a disadvantage against 60-to 90-passenger Douglas DC-7s and Lockheed Super Constellations on highly traveled routes. Moreover, when Capital switched to Viscounts, it was unable to sell its aging fleet of DC-4s and early-model Constellations. Capital still flies the old planes, estimates that its inability to sell them cost about $1,000,000 last year, just about the extent of its deficit...
...automobile, a TV set, beer in the icebox, a pension in prospect, a month's vacation every year, and enough cash in his pocket to finance it. Thanks to his Air Force training, he knows he can walk into a big-pay position in the aircraft industry any time he decides to quit the service. On top of that, the sergeant, who is a line chief, has the satisfaction of doing a job that is vital to his country's survival, and on top of that he has the pleasure of rigging the craziest kite a grown...