Word: building
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news conference, laid down a few of the specifics of what he and the President had in mind. The Communists, said McElroy, could hardly mount an attack of the size needed to destroy the U.S. without preparations that would be detectable by the U.S. Such a huge build up would require 1) heavy communications traffic, such as for readying hundreds of missile countdowns, 2) heavy forces movements which might not go undetected. Duration of such a buildup might be four or five days. And if such a buildup were reported to the U.S., it would, said McElroy, create "exactly...
Asked about the cost of the project, Sullivan said he had no figure in mind because he had not had detailed plans made. Rep. Koplow suggested that it would be impossible to build apartments on the site which would rent for a reasonable amount...
...Football does not build the character," Thompson returned. "It's no substitute for motherhood...
...into a six-day tour of Catholic missions on Formosa and the Pescadores Islands. Already he carried in his portfolio an urgent request from Chiang Kai-shek's government for closer Vatican ties; in exchange, Agaganian may ask draft exemption for students for the priesthood and permission to build more schools for the island's growing Catholic flock (now 114,000). Next week, after celebrating Mass in Taipei's Armed Forces Stadium, the cardinal moves on to Korea and Japan-showing the cross throughout an area menaced by Communism...
...longer afford the huge surpluses being piled up by this efficiency is doubted by most farm experts. Even if the support scandal continues, there is something for U.S. taxpayers to be cheerful about. Rising efficiency keeps down the cost of food. The mountainous grain surplus currently is causing a build-up in cattle-breeding-pointing to an eventual price break...