Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been delivering about $2.5 billion worth of arms to its allies-while congressional appropriations averaged only $1.5 billion a year'. The difference has been made up by digging into the backlog by $1 billion a year. With the backlog now down to $2.5 billion, barely enough to provide lead time on complicated weapons like missiles and jet airplanes, arms deliveries will take "a drastic decline of 40% or more" by fiscal 1962 unless Congress increases the annual appropriation...
...Members must on no account lead scandalous lives until they are in such a position that the newspapers dare not reveal the facts...
...peace disturber just because he warned against the "artificial euphoria" that might result from Khrushchev's visit. The London press attacked him in the same vein as Pravda does. "This man is dangerous," huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The policy of Dr. Adenauer would lead to war." To Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, "the self-important old chancellor" was reminiscent of "a bullfrog who puffed himself up until he burst...
...getting Japanese, who have crashed the U.S. market with everything from cameras to transistors to hibachi charcoal braziers, last week were briskly redesigning their little cars for a full-scale commercial assault. The cars lead a broader invasion of the U.S. market by all manner of Japanese heavy industrial goods. This year Japanese exports to the U.S. will exceed $800 million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric train...
...international airlines enter the Jet Age, the U.S. is junking a belief as outdated as its piston planes. The belief was that U.S. flag carriers could hold their lead over a growing flock of aggressive foreign competitors without a drastic change in U.S. air policy. Last week the U.S. airlines got a new warning of the onward march of foreign competition. From the State Department came an announcement that Air France will get an additional U.S. gateway at Baltimore and a polar route to the U.S. West Coast. BOAC will get the right to land at Tokyo...