Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another sign of the capital-goods buildup was machine-tool orders. Makers reported that new orders in April reached an estimated $50.6 million, nearly double the $28.3 million during the same month last year, and well ahead of shipments (see chart). Said James C. Hodge, executive vice president of Warner & Swasey Co., leading U.S. toolmaker, whose orders are up at a rate more than 100% higher than last year: "We expect new order increases to continue during this year and probably into...
Word of the new Western position came after an American delegation spokesman called for thoroughgoing discussion in the Big Four foreign ministers meeting of the West's package plan. This envisages a phased program toward settlement of the future of Berlin and Germany and the buildup of a European security system...
...complicating factor in Hungary-which doubtless made Moscow bold-was that simultaneously the West was involved in the tragic affair of Suez. The buildup to Suez: 1) Dulles angered Egypt's Dictator Nasser when he pulled back U.S. aid from the Aswan Dam in retaliation for Nasser's acceptance of Red arms; 2) Nasser seized the Suez Canal; 3) Dulles tried with U.S. allies, with the U.N., to work out a solution and failed. But when Britain, France and Israel launched a sudden attack against Egypt without notice to the U.S., Dulles took the toughest stand for principle...
...that he will not be a presidential candidate and that he intends to run for re-election as Governor in 1962; 3) Nixon will be re-elected President in 1964, and being constitutionally unable to run again, will appoint Rockefeller Secretary of State and start him toward a presidential buildup for 1968. The alleged clincher: if Nixon is defeated in 1960, Rockefeller can jump into the running...
...Contrary to general Washington belief that too much aid goes for military forces and too little for economic buildup, more money should go to military assistance-and most of the proposed $400 million increase should go to put hardware in the pipeline for NATO forces. But the $2.3 billion that the President has requested for economic aid is "the minimum...