Word: costs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ease the pain, to save face for his government. In the recent monetary crisis that led to the pound's devaluation (see above), Sir Oliver performed, behind the scenes, a masterly job of transmitting the U.S. pressure for devaluation in a way that cost Britain a minimum of dignity. In the style of the King's letter, Sir Oliver did it with diligence, discretion and circumspection...
With 50 "Qu' avecs" already built, the general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...
Some of the speakers won applause, but the real hero of the conference, holding court in the Computation Laboratory up the street, was a machine: the Mark III Computer, built by Harvard for the Navy at a cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among...
Some of the speakers won applause, but the real hero of the conference, holding court in the Computation Laboratory up the street, was a machine: the Mark III Computer, built by Harvard for the Navy at a cost of $500,000. From the front, the Mark III looks like a giant radio panel, with a clean, serene dignity. But behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among...
Team Play. Britain's triumph in aircraft design was due to a combination of free-enterprising plane builders, Labor government financing and good planning. It did much to wipe out the government's flop with the Tudor planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes...