Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the $38 billion figure was hit upon, it was not by any manner or means a sacrosanct figure," said the President at his weekly press conference. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall...
Therefore the prognosis for fiscal 1959 runs like this: 1) revenues, held down by the leveling of business and the cost-squeeze on profits, will not advance beyond current levels of about $73.5 billion a year; 2) spending will hit $72 billion or go higher. As of now, there is talk of a small surplus, but such talk will probably be stilled by the time snow flies...
Steadily slipping all year, President Eisenhower's popularity rating has hit its lowest since the 1954 congressional elections (see chart). In reply to his standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), Pollster George Gallup last week reported these answers...
Whipple also tried to calm the nerves of jittery moonwatchers who, he warned, would probably be unable to see any rocket hit the moon, even if such a missile had been sent up. Without accurate information on the trajectory, he said, even the biggest telescopes would be unable to track a moon-rocket...
Whipple maintained, moreover, that Russia's inability to prove to the world that it had hit the moon is "a good argument against their trying to do it." He predicted that within a "very few years--five, at the most" man would be able to get a rocket to hit the moon or to go into an orbit around...