Word: armament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot say that I agree with all of General Eisenhower's views on ... foreign policy . . . but I think it is fair to say that our differences are differences of degree . . . From my standpoint the essential thing is to keep our expenditures on armament and foreign aid as long as there is no general war, at a percentage of our total income which will not destroy our free economy at home and further innate our debt and our currency . . . General Eisenhower emphatically agrees with me in the proposal to reduce drastically overall expenses. Our goal is about $70 billion...
...budget allocated to defense, it is the Soviet Union which now fixes the level of our defense expenditures and thus our tax rates. The only way to emancipate ourselves from this foreign control ... is first to develop our strength, and then to find the means of ending the armament race...
...last time. In an hour-long speech sputtering with the standard invective, he announced Russia's complete rejection of the five-power disarmament talks proposed last month by the U.S., Britain and France. He also took a sideswipe at Ike Eisenhower, who, claimed Malik, has "a mad armament race as his platform...
...Force has tried to get private industry into developing aircraft armament, but with little success; businessmen are fearful of being tagged with the "merchants of death" stigma that haunted Du Pont for years. With Oerlikon's arrival, the Air Force hopes that other U.S. manufacturers will get into ordnance development and provide U.S. planes with the heavier firepower they need...
...charge of B-29 production during the war, later plugged for huge forging and extrusion presses for the Air Force (TIME, March 3). As Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland's richest...