Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one hit on a target at a 3,400-mile range; the U.S. has test-fired four models of the Air Force's Convair ICBM Atlas, has scored two hits at a programed initial 500-to 600-mile range. Atlas, U.S. missilery's prime weapon (cost: about $4,000,000 apiece) is fueled with a mixture of liquid oxygen and kerosene, is designed to deliver a hydrogen warhead of megaton dimensions at a speed of about 14,000 m.p.h. to a target five miles in diameter at a 5,500-mile range. Atlas has 300,000 parts...
...Cabinet was his insistence that government expenditures must be maintained at exactly the same level as last year's. But in the new estimates, expenditures came out almost ?50 million ($140,000,000) higher. This was not because of new extravagances but because standard welfare-state services would cost more. To cut the last ?50 million would mean cutting into such programs as free milk for children and expectant mothers, reducing the family allowances that pay parents $1.12 a week for their second child, $1.40 for each subsequent child. To cut such payments, argued Thorneycroft's opponents, would...
International bodies pay one-fifth of the costs, the U.S. another fifth through economic-aid programs, and the participating governments put up the remaining three-fifths. How cheap it is for all concerned is shown by India, the world's greatest malaria reservoir. Farm workers used to lose 170 million man-days a year, and many areas suffered semistarvation because of the ravages of the disease. The direct death toll was a million a year, and dirt-poor villagers paid an average of 10 rupees each for nostrums. Already, with partial control programs, India has cut malaria cases from...
...next few years. Convair and RCA have already submitted to the Defense Department plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead for a crash program...
Many legislators recall Charley Wilson's warning that defense appropriations must do more than simply increase to cover the cost of inflation. The $40 billion figure reputedly selected by the Administration for this year's military spending tallies uncomfortably closely with Wilson's estimate for a budget raise designed only to meet rising costs. If, of course, Eisenhower can show that the same amount of real money is being spent more wisely, he will be home safe. Such a position, however, will take a lot of knowledgeable defending, even in an election year...