Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There will be many tests-and probably more flops along with successful firings-before the U.S. long-range missile program is in high gear. But the clear proof that the missiles are coming and coming fast will be a factor in free world diplomacy from...
...LeMay and Air Force Chief of Staff Thomas D. White testified that lack of funds has stalled SAC's "minimum" program for dispersing its bases and improving its capacity for getting into the air fast in an alert. The Administration, said LeMay, has done nothing since Sputnik I to speed up the minimum program, or even to restore the cuts that SAC took during the Pentagon's frantic dollar pinch in the last months of fiscal...
...have most correctly emphasized that no disarmament scheme is acceptable unless the application of it can be verified. Few things are impossible; but it may actually be impossible to verify disarmament in the Soviet Union. The game is strongly weighted against us and the very rules are changing too fast...
...test shoot, and that one of three missile tests turns out to be a flop-nik. With perhaps half a dozen exceptions, the press corps at Cape Canaveral had no grounding in the infinitely complex mechanics of missilery. In any event, since word of a scheduled firing spreads fast on the missile beat-postponement of last week's scheduled Atlas test was known to the press within a few hours-most of the newsmen who blanketed the Vanguard shoot would have been there with no prodding from the Pentagon...
...same unevenness showed up in Detroit's output, which is being closely geared to expected sales. General Motors, which took a drubbing in the 1957 model year, is coming back fast, this month will produce 310,000 autos v. 280,000 for December 1956. Last week Chevrolet scheduled production of 46,400 cars, which would be an alltime weekly production record for the division. Although Ford insists that its sales are up, it has cut its production to 26% of the industry's total v. 31% for the first eleven months, is laying off about 5,000 production...