Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Rifles. Tommy White's quiet but firm drive for perfection, his professional sense of urgency, are reflected at every level of the Air Force's 25,000-plane command-including 14,000 jets, 12,500 of them strike planes-to the point that his 900,000-man force lives all day, every day, by the doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles...
...lost 90,175 skilled technicians, mostly to industry, at a replacement and retraining cost of $1.7 billion; many of these experts have since returned to SAC as their companies' "tech-reps" (civilian technical representatives), and they do much the same as their old jobs at about the salary level of SAC Commanding General Power's $16,851 a year...
...sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...
Mexico's Finance Minister Antonio Carrillo Flores pointed out that "it is to the U.S.'s interest to maintain the present high level of exports to Mexico. But how can Mexico keep up its imports if the U.S. cuts our ability to pay for them, if we get less for our zinc and lead?" Concluded ex-Diplomat Henry Holland, who was the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief until last year: "InterAmerican trade is in greater danger than at any time in years...
Word that intermediate-range weapons are ready for the production line came out today in the House investigation of the missile program. Representative Mahon (D-Tex.) said top-level decisions will be forthcoming soon--possibly this week--to resolve Pentagon policy differences and to go into high gear operational production of the intermediate-range ballistic missile--IRBM...