Word: armaments
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...three Douglas C-118 transports and 18 men of the U.S. Air Force took off on a 57-day, 11,000-mile trip to Geneva, Switzerland. The C-118s had gone all the way from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. to pick up 192 touring delegates of Moral Re-Armament (only 55 of them Americans) and ferry them slowly around Asia and the Middle East, winding up next September in Geneva...
...with bankruptcy of its old policy. Cold war and hot threats had failed to cow Western Europe or to halt the rebirth of a rearmed, democratic Germany. The Soviets were overcommitted: with less than a third of U.S. industrial capacity, they were at tempting to keep up an atomic armament race with the U.S. An enormous part of Russia's armaments was disappearing in the maw of the Red Chinese dragon, and the Soviet people, under cruel economic burdens, were restive. It appeared the Soviet leaders wanted a "respite...
...stepped up after a two-year lapse. Red agents in Europe's rubber markets have bought some 15,000 tons of natural rubber for delivery in the next eight weeks, 30 times more than they bought in all of 1954. Rubber experts speculate that Russia's expanding armament industry is now using more rubber than either its synthetic plants (annual capacity: about 250,000 tons) or its faithful satellites can produce...
...Caspar C. Warren of the First Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C. as convention president. Under the eyes of a delegation of nine Baptists from the U.S.S.R., the convention passed a resolution to congratulate President Eisenhower for his "patient diplomatic conduct," urged a "more determined effort" at armament reduction and elimination of atomic, weapons...
...after pooling all information concerning their respective armament and undertaking not to increase it, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Red China would agree to limit their armed forces to 1,500,000 men each, Britain and France to 650,000 men each. (These are the figures originally proposed by Britain, against Malik's previous stubborn insistence on one-third reduction all around, a proposal that favored the big armies of Russia and Red China.) In the first stage, nuclear nations would promise not to use nuclear weapons unless the Security Council decided they were acting "in defense against aggression...