Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 the kind of a situation which the President of the U.S. at that time would have a very serious question posed for him . . . That is a description of a situation...
...better gauge is sales, especially in February, which automen consider one of the key months this year. There the picture is increasingly bright. Sales were up 26% over February '58, with 405,300 cars sold. Inventories are 15% below 1958 levels, with little buildup in most lines. Leaders for February, in order...
...reason for the inventory buildup is plain: consumer appetites are getting bigger. Out of General Electric's Appliance Park in Louisville went the biggest shipment ever-400 railroad cars with 22,000 appliances tagged at $5,500,000. Appliance makers noted sales running about 15% ahead of 1958 as consumers loaded up with refrigerators, washing machines, and gas and electric ranges. Much of the buying was for new houses; builders reported new residential contracts for $1,021,516,000 in January, up 32% from January 1958. With the faster pace, supplies of raw materials grew thinner as manufacturers hedged...
...planned production of ICBMs by mid-1963. Planning now calls for the deployment of 90 Atlas ICBMs and 110 Titan ICBMs in 20 squadrons of ten missiles apiece by mid-1963. The U.S., under the new proposal, would add 200 more Atlas ICBMs to the buildup. Cost over four years: about $2.5 billion, with a relatively small $500 million to come out of the fiscal 1960 budget as a first installment on buying the added striking power...
...production, guaranteed their suppliers against loss if they in turn would buy ahead. But many a steel user who had let his inventories get close to bottom was discovering that it was hard to rebuild them enough for strike protection. Allowing for the probable rise in consumption, the maximum buildup in inventories by midyear was expected to be only about 6,000,000 tons, just about what would normally be needed for current needs at that time...