Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acheson. Two days later, before an applauding group of NATO parliamentarians in Washington, Acheson implied that the Russians are interested principally in survival for Communists. "It is so easy to confuse or to use this word 'negotiation' as a cover for a surrender ... If to negotiate means to...
MANY U.S. military men agree that $41 billion a year is enough to buy adequate defense for the nation, but few believe that the $41 billion-plus budget for fiscal 1961 is going to buy the best or even adequate defense. Though drafted over months of round-the-clock work...
The new budget makes only token cuts in force levels, proposes to halt no major projects except nuclear power for aircraft carriers. The rising cost of arms is met mainly by the timeworn device of "stretching out" procurement and development schedules on hardware. The stretch-out looks fine on paper...
∙The supersonic 6-58 bomber, originally scheduled to begin operation last year, was designed to replace the obsolescent 6-47. But the newly extended stretch-out means that the $2.2 billion spent on the 6-58 may never lead to more than two or three wings, and they may...
∙The anti-bomber Bomarc B missile system, like its predecessor Bomarc A, will likely become obsolete before it is operational (two or three years). It also overlaps the role of manned interceptors (F-102, F-104,F-106). In the light of the Soviet jump over bombers to ICBMs...