Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inheritance. When he took office last January, Eisenhower inherited the Truman defense budget. Like previous Truman budgets, it was not shaped by the White House, or by the Secretary of Defense, or even by the Joint Chiefs of Staff acting as a unit. It was a combination of the requirements and goals of individual services-Army, Navy, Air Force-each trying to get as much money as it could. Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard...
...housekeeping cuts were not what Eisenhower had in mind in the Baltimore speech. While they were being made, he ordered the Joint Chiefs to get busy on a basically new kind of budget. Last October they produced a "New Look," but it turned out to be the old kind of budget with some novel trimmings. Eisenhower and the National Security Council did not accept the phony New Look, sent it back to the services for further work...
Eisenhower's instruments of pressure on the services were Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Arthur Radford. Last week, with Wilson taking part in the discussions. Admiral Radford and the three service chiefs finished sketching out a defense program for 1956-58. Defense Department officials handed the sketch to the President, along with a draft of the 1955 defense budget...
...Mercury is priced the same and looks much the same as last year's cars on the outside. The big changes are inside. Among them: new front shock absorbers and springs, an improved automatic (Merc-O-Matic) transmission, an easy-steering front-end suspension with a ball & socket joint replacing the old-fashioned kingpin assembly. But the biggest improvement is the engine. Instead of last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury has a completely redesigned V8, turning up 161 h.p., that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours...
...Kremlin policy makers find the new proposals acceptable, the action taken by the West is itself a good sign. Eisenhower has keynoted a policy which may again put the West on the diplomatic offensive and force Russia to cooperate in a fair proposal or by rejecting a joint commission, stimulate increased defense preparations in the United States and Western Europe...