Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certain that other members of the Air National Guard, like myself, hope that our role will be determined on the basis of the Air Guard's accomplishments and efficiency, and not upon political considerations or personal vendettas. We feel that the Guard's past record and accomplishments, level of proficiency, esprit de corps, and combat readiness will compare favorably with any organization in the Air Force, regular or reserve...
...inflation's other front, the fight for a balanced U.S. budget for fiscal 1961, disputes were rumbling that only the President could settle. The Pentagon was crying that U.S. defensive strength will suffer if the Administration insists on holding spending to the $41 billion level of the current fiscal year. In fighting against the outflow of dollars to foreign countries, the Administration was studying a possible cut in foreign aid and a revision of trade policies, with an eye toward shaping a new foreign economic policy that would hold the free world together...
Into the Pentagon last week drummed word from the White House that defense spending for fiscal 1961 must be held at or below the present $41 billion level. The services estimated that they would need $43 billion to $44 billion just to maintain present strength and cope with the rising costs of personnel and weapons. Obviously some serious cuts were coming. Best guesses...
...according to the pols and the polls, have at least an outside chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, Stuart Symington is the least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going for him. He has had more high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government than Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Texas' Lyndon Johnson put together. As a Midwesterner of Southern ancestry, who was born in Amherst, Mass, and raised in Baltimore, Md., he has an enviably broad and safe...
...building. The building has been built in three separate stages: the as-yet undated early stage, the late Roman stage and the Byzantine stage, part of which had always been visible. The infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive look at this third level to ascertain if indeed the foundation doesn't lie further below. At the present moment, "CG" stands at about 43 feet tall...