Word: pushbutton
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Tomorrow's pushbutton war got its first full-dress showing last week at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. On a dusty desert flat, surrounded by Salvador Dali mountains, hundreds of newsmen, photographers, scientists, U.S. and British generals, crouched behind hummocks at a safe distance. They watched a scene to horrify any man with imagination...
...While the labor leaders, industrial giants, and various Federal agencies jockey for top spots in the new era of pushbutton prosperity, the small manufacturers cannot even get the material to make the push buttons. Their labor costs rise whenever the powerful unions effect a wage boost, the cost of their raw materials goes up whenever the large corporations break through a price ceiling, and the daily changes in Federal rules multiply their clerical work and overhead costs...
...Congress would hear plenty from airmen about the battleship before the shape of the postwar Navy was finally set. It would also hear from the visionary pundits who would argue that this was the age of the atom bomb and the pushbutton war, and that there was no point in having a fleet...
...King reached with his foot for a pushbutton hidden under the carpet to summon the soldiers. Before he could reach it, however, they tramped...
...sergeant, hmmm? Do you have trouble being recognized at night? Do your men ignore you in the dark, huh, Sarge? See Joe Quartermaster and get your neon sergeant stripes. There's a pushbutton attachment. The slightest pressure and presto, your stripes light up like a Christmas tree...