Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Intelligence Gap. The AMSA concept took a long time to develop and was further delayed by two big Ms-money and McNamara. The former Defense Secretary could never be persuaded of AMSA's immediate merit. He argued that the current B-52s and the troublefraught new FB-llls could be modified with advance defense-penetration devices that would make them effective into the mid-70s. Further, he was reluctant to commit the nation to a vast defense expenditure (210 FB-llls would cost about $1.5 billion, 210 AMSAs would cost $8.1 billion) in view of the gap between development...
...Check), money-grubbing ministers (The Profits of Religion), land exploitation by the California petroleum industry (Oil!), subservience of universities to business (The Goose-Step), cowardly book publishers (Money Writes!), the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti (Boston), the baronial life of Henry Ford (The Flivver King), and the ruthlessness of mine owners in the 1913-14 Colorado strike (King Coal). Sinclair also crusaded for birth control and childlabor laws, and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union...
...relaxed sufficiently after several pink gins to joke about their cargoes of "birth-control pills"-or ammunition. "You only need one of them, mate," a pilot chuckled. All the pilots have one thing in common-they fly to get a stake. "I'm only in it for the money," one sad, balding man told me. "I've got a wife and five kids and I want to put a down payment on a house in Salisbury." Another Rhodesian had a second motive: "That Harold Wilson is a bastard. He's against Biafra and he's buggering...
...shared this minor unpleasantness with us tried to figure out which part of the USA most resembled the locations in Spain where the film was shot. Yet another surmised, correctly I think, that the reason Shalako is an "outdoor" picture is that the producers didn't have any money for sets when they got through paying off the cast...
...main check on accuracy is competition. No one would consider faking a poll because it would immediately be challenged by the others. Pollsters want to be accurate--that's how they make their money...