Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy and that flies belongs to the Air Force." ¶ Army, an unofficial magazine that reflects high Army thinking, devoted its June issue to blasting the Air Force, suggested that the Air Force must "face up to technological obsolescence," described "conventional" Army forces as the "only reliable instrument for stopping aggression and upholding our national interests...
...concluded-as Air-Power Man Curtis LeMay says-without "profit" to himself. Therefore, for the first time in military annals, the primary mission of the U.S. armed forces is not to prepare and plan for long war, but to array themselves as a powerfully armed, well-deployed ready instrument of deterrence...
...mate him to at least 15 carrier cows and see if his calves are ever dwarfs. This takes a long time, so the cattle experts are trying hard to find some other system. Dr. Paul Wallace Gregory of the University of California at Davis has invented a "profilometer," an instrument to detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love...
...Federal Reserve Board, as it has often been in the past, was under bitter attack last week. The ruggedly independent agency, which in 1951 was roundly belabored as an "engine of inflation," was now just as severely criticized as a boom-toppling instrument of deflation, largely because of its credit-tightening action. Amid the growing furor over credit, Texas Representative Wright Patman called for a full-dress congressional investigation to find out if the Federal Reserve has pinched credit too tight. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and White House Economic Adviser Arthur Burns have all voiced public...
...lawyer, a Chinese. Three generations of Lee Kuan-yew's rich merchant family have been born in Singapore. Like Marshall, Lee, who is 33, studied law at London's Middle Temple. His People's Action Party is far enough to the left to be the chosen instrument of the Communists, and the British cannot quite decide whether he is a prisoner of the Communists or the simple nationalist and follower of Nehru that he professes: to be. In Asian ears his merdeka has a sharper ring...