Word: american
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...
...article dealing with our difficulties with space expresses the kind of realism I like to see. It strikes me as fantastic almost beyond belief that American missilemen are not allowed just $105 million to speed up Saturn tests four years; yet American farmers are given some $7 billion to increase the food bills of the American people...
...annual loans of $550 million are a fraction of the $5 billion in string-free U.S. economic aid (and most of DLF funds have been spent in the U.S. anyway). But the order touched off editorials that the U.S. was moving backward to a "Buy American" program calculated to subsidize high-priced American products that could not otherwise compete in world markets. Arkansas' William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, fired off a barrage of hostile questions to DLF Director Vance Brand in the name of free trade...
...Main Streets. A band of influential Missourians led by St. Louis Lawyer Jacob M. Lashly, sometime president of the American Bar Association, urged Symington to run for the Senate in the 1952 election. "I don't think the world is in as bad shape as you do," Lashly told him. "But if it is, you have no right to go back to the pleasure of making money...
...supplement to research, students get new perspectives on their topic from prominent guest speakers. For the Conference on American inflation, the School has invited Arthur Burns (former Economic Advisor to the President), the chief lawyer for David McDonald's Steelworkers Union, and Senator Clark of Pennsylvania. In coordinating top-flight outside speakers with its academic program, the Woodrow Wilson School sets an example which might be followed with profit in Harvard College...