Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steering the nation out of the recession without resorting to wars, WPAs, boondogling, hysterics...
Coming Fast. The rejoicing meant as much to the nation as to Atlas' dogged crews. Despite the Sputnik furor and the panicky cries that the U.S. was lagging behind the Russians in missilery, Convair and the Air Force stuck stubbornly to a schedule that was programed for maximum effort long before Sputnik. Atlas will need many more tests-and particularly refinement of its guidance system-before it is a real operational weapon. But if, as they claim, the Russians have already fired an ICBM (3,500 miles, according to U.S. intelligence guesses), the successful full-range Atlas flight makes...
...strict ceiling on military spending could disastrously weaken the nation's defenses. But a ceiling that is merely uncomfortable can have beneficial results: it can force military leaders to cut down on overlap, make choices between concepts and weapons. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed up by the President, has tried to hold the 1960 defense budget to a distinctly uncomfortable $41.6 billion, i.e., this year's level plus a 2% inflation factor. And one result of the painful ceiling is that the Pentagon is taking hard-eyed looks at duplication and obsolescence among the U.S.'s twoscore...
...national committee has been appointed to direct the overall campaign. It will have branches in 100 communities across the nation, including all major Eastern cities, Hunneman continued...
...Johnson and Smith Catalogue supplied the humor for a nation, for decades. In its crumbling pages (carefully preserved in the famous 'X' cage of famous Widener library) is enough material for a hundred Soc. Rel theses...