Word: dispersionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missiles have a highly pertinent advantage over bombers, which need huge runways and surrounding installations. For the vast dispersion possibilities of missile launchers will greatly increase the reflex potential of any nation that is attacked.
The first requirement, without which all else becomes moot, is enough airlift to transport quickly at least four strategic divisions and all their fighting tools from U.S. staging areas to any part of the globe. To achieve maximum effectiveness and security once in the arena of war, Army planners have...
"Because of the dispersion of the force's ships and the range of its weapons, such a carrier force could exert a tight and exclusive control over an area of 60,000 square miles-the six New England states rearranged into a circle 275 miles in diameter . . . Nuclear warheads...
The dispersion of industry is another big factor in the growth of corporate fleets. Before 1940, nearly half of all American industrial plants were in cities of more than 100,000 population; now only one-third are. Moreover, 30% of new plants established since 1940 are in towns of 10...
Today is the first day of the ninth month since the eleven o'clock parietal rules came to the Houses. For those who warned this liberty would cause excessive dispersion of wild oats, it was a disillusioning spring. A careful check has revealed no rise in the rates of liquor...