Word: attack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile squadron strength from nine to 17, also $87 million to speed development of the second-generation, solid-fueled ICBM Minuteman. The Administration had wanted $260 million for a steam-powered aircraft carrier, but Congress said no, instead put up $35 million to cover advance planning on a nuclear-attack aircraft carrier. It added $137 million for the Navy's undernourished antisubmarine-warfare program. One congressional lapse from sound strategic planning: an added $73 million to keep the politically-powerful National Guard at 400,000 men instead of at the Administration's recommended level...
...conference: U.S. Governors should take the lead in getting their citizens to build nuclear-fallout bomb shelters, since a nationwide system of private shelters would blunt the effectiveness of nuclear blackmail, would save millions of lives and ensure the survival of the U.S. itself in case of nuclear attack...
...with his brother Sigurd of the klystron, a radio tube operating at microwave frequencies that figured prominently in the development of World War II radar and later guided missiles, founder (1948) and board chairman of Varian Associates, a fast-rising, $20 million-a-year electronics firm; of a heart attack; aboard a cruise ship near Juneau, Alaska...
...robbing business from the third quarter." Such profits, he said, must be "the regular order of business" if the industry is to modernize and grow, compete against foreign firms and other materials at home. But the industry's argument did not stem the union's expected attack. Cried Steelworkers Boss David J. McDonald: "The astronomical profit figures completely demolish the excuse the companies have used to force this shutdown. How can they possibly justify a heartless denial of needed benefits to their workers, who have produced this mammoth pile of profits...
Publisher Uhlan was raised in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, got into "the business of getting something out of someone for a price" while living in city convalescent homes after a crippling attack of polio at the age of four. "With the contents of food packages my mother had sent me," he wrote in his vanity-published autobiography, Rogue of Publishers' Row, "I inveigled a fascinating storyteller among the older boys into spinning yarns for me. A chocolate bar was good for Jack and the Beanstalk; a banana would buy Bluebeard or The King of the Golden...