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This week the Navy hopes to lay the keel for the second of ten proposed $220 million flush-deck carriers of the Forrestal class. The Navy got the money for the carrier by an end run around the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by pressuring Congress and convincing Defense Secretary Lovett. With quiet confidence, the Navy thinks it can get enough money to complete its program of ten supercarriers. In desperation, the Air Force is starting to squawk covertly through its unofficial mouthpiece, Air Force magazine, and publicly in the steel-edged speeches of Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric...
...exorbitantly expensive: a carrier task group consists of four carriers, must be supported by six cruisers or battleships, 30 destroyers, four scouting submarines, a minesweeping force, and a train of tankers and supply ships. By rough estimate (the Navy will not talk cost figures), such a force with flush-deck carriers costs $2.5 billion. One B50 bomber group, plus cost of air base, fighter protection, fuel, men and antiaircraft guns costs less than one of the new carriers completely armed. And the B50 group can deliver about 15 times as much bomb tonnage to the enemy in a given period...
...hollow. Next morning the men came back with truck jacks, wedged them under the protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked at the jacks. By morning they had raised the slab some two feet, only to find another lid fitted flush in the top of the block. With crowbar and ropes, they managed to lift the second...
Blow what winds would, the ancient truth was mine, And friendship mellowed in the flush of wine, And heavenly laughter, shaking from its wings Atoms of light and tears for mortal things...
...been extremely successful in squelching legislation in the medical field for the last ten years. Perhaps it is this flush of victory that makes the group jump out of the grandstand and start campaigning. Undoubtedly, the AMA would feel safer with Washington Republican. Ever since it opposed Woodrow Wilson's proposal for extended small pox innoculation as "socialism," most of its targets have been Democratic proposals...