Word: coste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear jet bomber. All believed that the Russians might soon have an atomic plane ready...
Navy's lagging Vanguard. He figured that the IRBM rivalry between the Air Force Thor and the Army Jupiter had gone so far, taken so long and cost so much that both should be put into production. McElroy upgraded Deputy Assistant Secretary William Holaday to the post of missile boss. To those who doubted Holaday's ability, McElroy also let it be known that the Pentagon's real missile boss was Neil McElroy...
EGYPT. The $250 million barter deal that the Soviets negotiated with Nasser in September 1955 has cost Egypt dearly. What Egypt got was Czech arms-many of which were captured by the Israelis-plus such items as crude oil of such a high sulphur content that it damaged Egypt's refineries, and newsprint so coarse that it tore up Cairo's high-speed Western presses. In return. Nasser gave the Soviets a long-term mortgage on Egypt's cotton crop, the nation's No. 1 source of income. The Soviets started off by reselling Egypt...
SYRIA. The Soviet aid agreement signed by the Syrians with such fanfare last October ostensibly commits the U.S.S.R. to supply in credits and technical aid about one-third the estimated $600 million cost of 19 specific development projects (among them: oil exploration, port expansion, construction of a dam across the Euphrates). But the agreement also specifies that a separate accord must be negotiated on each project before actual work is begun. The result is that Russia is not legally bound to spend a single ruble on Syrian development. And, in fact, the agreement has not yet netted Syria a single...
...impatient" approach to reunification, Conant said, offers policymakers the two extreme solutions of neutralization at the cost of withdrawing U.S. troops from across the Rhine, or rearmament of Germany with the intention of an eventual invasion of East Germany...