Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession-plagued Detroit, fearful of foreign economic competition, Acheson made a to-the-point plea for liberalized foreign trade and for deploying more U.S. funds overseas as an answer to Russia's growing economic challenge. Said Acheson: "Does anybody in this state seriously doubt the vast benefit its citizens have received from the purchase and export by foreign aid programs over nine years of $3.1 billion of motor vehicles, iron and steel items, machinery and chemicals, not to mention $9 billion of other industrial and agricultural items? In 1955, the last year for which we have figures, over...
...USAF-ADC, the Air Force's Air Defense Command, 2) USARADCOM, the Army's Air Defense Command, 3) NAVFOR, meaning Naval Forces of the North American Air Defense Command, and 4) RCAF-ADC, the Royal Canadian Air Force home defense unit. NORAD's cumbersome components must answer not only to Partridge, but to their own service Chiefs of Staff in Washington and Ottawa. And the service chiefs, under NORAD's peculiar charter, can pull fighting units and equipment out of NORAD with little or no reference to NORAD's requirements...
...larger sense, it might be wise not to undertake lengthy trips, if game conditions at the host campus are at all uncertain. We are not sure, from our relatively uninformed vantage-point, just what the answer to all this is: but we would be very surprised if there were no answer...
...fair chance to survive. Many new instruments and gadgets must be developed. "Granted that we have done all these things," said Pickering, "it seems to me that we should now ask the question: 'What do we gain by placing a man in the vehicle?' " Pickering's answer: a satellite-borne human would be hardly more than a hitchhiker. A much smaller payload of instruments could make far better observations, transmitting the information by radio or sending pictures back to earth in some sort of armored capsule. "If a human passenger is a part of the data transmission...
Another Time, Another Place (Lanturn Productions; Paramount) should provide an answer to one of Hollywood's most pressing questions: How will the recent scandal about Lana Turner's private life affect her public appeal? At a preview of this picture, when Actress Turner's name flashed on the screen, cheers rocked the galleries. The picture itself might more suitably be greeted with groans, but it is just the sort of soap opera that can be useful in laundering a reputation...