Word: hardtack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corned Beef and Competition. Cost overruns have been standard procedure in American military history. There were corned beef scandals during the Civil War, and the West was won partly on padded Government contracts for shot, powder, rifles, bully beef and hardtack. Today's excesses can hardly be blamed on defense-industry "profiteering." While U.S. industry's overall return on investment rose from 7.1% in 1967 to 10.1% last year, the defense contractors' profits have dropped from an average 10.1% to around...
...Bitter Debate. The U.S. continued testing, at Nevada and in the Pacific, from Operation Teapot through Operation Hardtack in October of 1958. During that period, the scientists tested tactical atomic weapons, dropped an H-bomb from a B-52, fired a depth charge, triggered a missile warhead 100 miles high, tried fallout-free underground testing...
Back to work. We leaned for a while on our hoes, then began again, working as the sun rose higher, slowly hoeing down the mountains of Middle America. We stopped at high noon, to eat again: cold beans, perhaps, and koshosh--toasted and hardened tortillas, corn hardtack, the unspoilable staple the Indians take on all trips...
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The program documents the daily lives of two U.S. diplomats, one in Chile, the other in East Pakistan, attempting to redress the notion that the Foreign Service is a gay and easy life: the cookies they push are sometimes hardtack...
...thought so when it entered in the Geneva conference in October 1948, but learned in the Hardtack underground test series in Nevada in September 1958 that no detection system using known methods could be depended upon to detect explosions of less than 19 kilotons...