Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capabilities. They got formal independence from Congress and President Truman in 1947. But the declaration of independence did not end the revolution. Tooey Spaatz, as the first Chief of Staff, U.S.A.F., and his successor, Hoyt Vandenberg, still had their hands full. One hand tried to fashion an atom-jet striking force to stop the threat of Communism; the other fought off the Army and Navy, which did not cotton to the Air Force's demands for money-much more money than the one-third of defense funds that it was getting...
While air-atom power increases under the Eisenhower defense budget, total defense spending and manpower will be decreasing. Manpower is to go down from 3,400,000 now to 3,000,000 by July of next year. The year's defense spending is programmed at $37.6 billion, $4 billion below this fiscal year, $6.1 billion under last year...
...minimum. Yet, it would be no less wishful thinking to expect any foreign power to negotiate anything with a country so tied and bound. At worst, necessary international dealings would be abolished; at best, routine matters would become equal in difficulty to negotiations with Russia over the atom bomb. This is not to speak of more important treaties affecting state law which the entire government, prompted by the most insistent necessity, might wish to pass some time in the future...
...Madame Lupescu, who were living there, but in search of a gold mine." Dorothy never found it. but she was always hankering to parlay her $12 million inheritance into a greater fortune. She and Bugsy once tried to peddle an explosive, which "had almost the same power that the atom bomb had," to tbe Italian government. Like most of the countess' get-richer-quick schemes, Bugsy's bomb, "when the test came . . . merely went off 'pouf.' " At one of Dorothy's Hollywood parties, Elsa and Dorothy hung a Dictaphone near Actor John Barrymore when...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Featuring a demonstration of atom-smashing in a cyclotron...