Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R.'s greatest and growing advantage is that Communism, by its nature, is ready to strike the first blow and need prepare only for the war it proposes to fight, while the U.S., by its nature, must be defensive and gear its planning and procurement to any possible form of attack at any possible time...
...manhandled out. Once the unemotional Hillary radioed: "I thought at one time that this might be the end of the line for the tractor train." But the tractors made it, and Hillary would have been all right, of course, if they had not. He was carrying emergency gear and supplies for foot travel to the U.S. base...
...National Council has been publishing Memo sporadically for about seven years, but last week the publication and its sponsor were moving into high gear. Everyone connected with the project was quick to say that it would not be a Protestant lobby. "We represent too many denominations [34] with too wide a range of interests to be a lobby even if we wanted to," says the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr., Dean of the Episcopal Washington Cathedral. "What we are going to try to do is to throw into the discussion of national and world affairs down here what might...
...Jupiter swept into the sky in a first-class launching. But, said the Defense Department, it "failed to complete its full flight because of technical difficulties." Thor, on the other hand, was eminently successful. For the first time, the Air Force fired its IRBM complete: nose cone, full guidance gear-and ballast in the nose to simulate the weight of its warhead. Thor flew a little under 1,200 nautical miles, landed within less than two nautical miles of its preselected target point. Thus Thor proved to be the leading IRBM in the U.S. arsenal; indeed, its manufacturer, Douglas Aircraft...
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...