Word: combating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Secretary Charles Wilson won his battle in Congress to cut $5 billion out of the Air Force budget for 1954, but in so doing he freely promised that the cut would not damage the combat effectiveness of the Air Force. Last week, attempting dutifully to tailor its cuts to fit the budget, the Air Force gave a fateful answer to Charlie Wilson's promise...
...reserve officers from active duty during the coming year. Among those to go will be nearly 2,200 pilots, some of whom have checked out in the U.S.A.F.'s backbone jet bomber, the B-47. Firing experienced personnel will have a direct effect on Air Force combat-readiness, but the cuts must be made to make room for this year's crop of Air R.O.T.C. graduates, 9,600 strong...
...Scrap plans for a buildup to 133 combat wings by next July and substitute a goal of only no wings. Though Air Force brass would like to see most of this cut come out of the 28 tactical wings which the U.S. has promised to NATO, Air Secretary Harold Talbott passed the word that the U.S. NATO commitment must stand unchanged. The alternative: a major reduction in the planned size of the Strategic Air Command and U.S. air-defense forces...
...authorized flying time 20%, a grievous blow to the precision training of combat crews...
...Richmond, Va. doctors warned in the A.M.A. Journal that in addition to its other hazards, Antabuse (the drug to combat alcoholism, now officially renamed disulfiram) should not be given to alcoholics with heart trouble. Taken with a little alcohol, as it must be to bring on the reaction which makes patients swear off liquor, the drug puts a strain on any heart...