Word: meant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since Secretary of State Dulles uttered those words ten weeks ago, a confused discussion about what he meant has spread across the U.S. and around the world. The questions snowballed. Did Dulles mean that the U.S. would abandon local ground defense, perhaps withdraw its ground troops from Europe? Would the U.S. rely solely on air-atomic power? Did Dulles mean that any war would automatically be turned into the big atomic war? Did "instantly" mean that the President would take the U.S. into war without consulting Congress or allies...
Both the Ridgway and Williams dissents were inevitable expressions of the views of their respective services. In a sense, however, both were assaulting a strawman. When the Eisenhower Administration departed from the witless "balanced-forces" policy (which meant that Army, Navy and Air Force should get about equal appropriations), it did not substitute a policy of putting all the defense eggs in one basket...
...enormous growth of the U.S. population has meant vast new markets in everything from baby carriages to washing machines and wrist watches. Will every retailer cash in on the bonanza? Not at all. The reason is that since 1940, almost half of the 28 million national population increase has taken place in residential suburban areas, anywhere from ten to 40 miles away from traditional big-city shopping centers. Thus, to win the new customers' dollars, merchants will have to follow the flight to the suburbs...
...nondiscrimination down Southern throats without warning. Scouts were sent to each city well in advance to place newspaper ads explaining company policy, to talk to civic groups and city officials. When the time came to hire, interviewers were on hand to explain exactly what the company meant. "Every white applicant," says a Harvester official, "was very clearly told that we did not discriminate and that he might find himself working beside a Negro. If he didn't like it, then it was no place for him to come to work." A few whites turned on their heels...
...Look" seems to have run full circle. And although the "containment" name calling still goes on, the subsurface differences in defense policy between Administrations would seem immaterial, if they exist at all. In the course of the debate, Admiral Radford, speaking for the Administration, denied that the "New Look" meant dependence "on a single weapon or service." But the military budget for 1955 tells a somewhat different story. More than four billion dollars will be cut from Army and Navy appropriations; spending for the Air Force and atomic weapons will increase. Advocates of the cut argue that cheaper and more...