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...wars and 3) to give precise support to U.S. diplomacy at precise points. Such a force-in-being, constantly under re-evaluation and re-equipment, demands such phenomenal expenditures as $15 million for an atomic-submarine power plant (about as much as a World War II light cruiser), $8,000,000 for an intercontinental B-52 jet bomber (as much as 42 World War II 6-175), $3 billion for an intercontinental missile program that will usher the U.S. into the costlier age of space...
Korea brought new crises, bigger budgets and a truce in the interservice knifing. In December 1952 President-elect Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Designate Charles E. Wilson made their trip to Korea. At Iwo Jima, in Korea, aboard the cruiser Helena (where Ike gathered prospective members of his Cabinet) and at Honolulu, Radford-as the Navy's Commander in Chief, Pacific-expounded his theories on military diplomacy and on the problems of Asia...
...biggest hit was the biggest boat, the 53-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 285-h.p. diesels, wall-to-wall carpeting, two bathrooms, a stall shower, electric galley, and private staterooms for ten. Price: $110,000. The most versatile: Neptuna's $4,400 Sportsman, a new amphibious auto trailer with retractable wheels that sleeps four on land or sea. The fastest: Bellingham Shipyards' 100-m.p.h. Bikini with hydroplane fiber-glass hull, twin inboard engines firing at 430 h.p., and a price...
Sales competition was bringing down the price of family inboards to meet the outboards. Carlisle tagged its 17-ft. Aqua-Queen cruiser with new compact Fageol VIP 35-h.p. engine at $1,995. Ulrichsen priced its 21-ft. Sea Skiff with twin 60-h.p. Chris Craft engines at $2,895. For do-it-yourselfers, there were kits ranging from an 8-ft. pram at $52 to a 23-ft. cabin cruiser for $879, about half what each would cost assembled...
...price: about $12,000, with production held to 1,000 a year); Pontiac's Bonneville sports convertible with fuel injection (production limited to 2,000 in first year); Nash's Rambler Rebel, due this spring, has 255 h.p., optional fuel injection; Mercury's $3,500 Turnpike Cruiser...