Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civil Defense. "Our civil defense program and that of our allies is completely inadequate...In the age of the ballistic missile, the known capability of a society to withstand attack will become an increasingly important deterrent." Specifically, the U.S. must develop an attack-proof radio warning net, begin building radioactive fallout shelters coast to coast (but a fantastically expensive blast-shelter program deserves more study), disperse stockpiles of food to meet famine and industrial reserves to meet economic chaos (with immediate tax incentives for companies that build new plants away from target areas). Beyond this obviously costly program...
Defense Secretary McElroy had just come from the U.S.'s 29th largest corporation to the world's largest public business-and Procter & Gamble seemed small by comparison. P. & G.'s 1957 net sales of $1,156,000,000 amounted to the operating costs of the Defense Department for ten days. Its $67 million net earnings would buy little more than a fully equipped nuclear submarine. Moreover, the rush of military technology had made the job of Defense Secretary bigger and tougher than ever before. The Soviet satellite revised all military parameters, and it was up to Neil...
...net result was vividly explained by Dr. Vannevar Bush, former chairman of the Pentagon Research and Development Board, in a recent appearance before the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Said Bush: "The services themselves, the three services, have prepared war plans, all different, each one of them the best they can produce. From there on, there has been no means by which those could be brought into a unitary plan. And since there has been no such means, the three plans have been advocated by the three services, and the discussion of them has been in the public press and some...
When the Federation of Malaya gained its independence and full-fledged membership in the British Commonwealth last August, Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman immediately dispatched a message into the jungles (TIME, Sept. 16). Its net: if Communist terrorists still holding out after nine years of costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
...thoroughly professional organization, superbly run on a shoestring by Bondurant and Maintenance Chief Lester Bancroft, 31, a veteran of Continental Airlines. Planes are constantly monitored over war-surplus radio equipment, must report every 15 minutes, are required to stay down after dark. Each man packs a mosquito net, air mattress and survival rations, is reminded in case he runs out of food to "eat what monkeys eat." "Fact is." says Maintenance Boss Bancroft, "we never had a serious accident. We feel the Lord is with...