Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Movable Airfield. But the real argument against the big carrier had sprung from the turbulent Navy-Air Force scramble over wartime missions. The United States was the Navy's bid for a chance at the Air Force's strategic bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
...only real argument over the record-breaking, $15.9 billion defense budget (see above) was how the money should be divided up among the services. The House bill gave Army, Navy & Air Force just about what the President had asked for-with one significant difference...
Russia's Andrei Gromyko lumped the veto question with the North Atlantic pact. The pact, he cried, was a direct. threat to Russia; moreover it was in violation of the U.N. charter. It took McNeil no time at all to demolish Gromyko's argument. "No one fears, or need fear the Atlantic pact, if their intentions are pacific . . ." he said. "Those to whom the thought and methods of war are utterly repugnant . . . will welcome the Atlantic pact...
Debate teams argued in Providence and Cambridge last night in an Ivy League contest with Brown on the question: "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed." The traveling due supported the negative and won a unanimous decision, and the home team upheld the affirmative but lost its argument...
...cowmen have been gypping the consumer long enough. Their color argument is ridiculous, for the butter people color their own stuff half the year. And they really have little to worry about. An English newspaper went around feeding butter and margarine to blindfolded housewives and found that most of the women preferred butter anyway. A lot of people would benefit from untaxed oleo; it is about time yellow margarine got a friendly pat from the government...