Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO. They promised, in more certain terms than ever before, that the U.S. would come to immediate and full defense of any NATO nation attacked by an enemy; they promised to seek substantial increases in funds for aid, technical assistance and loans to NATO countries; they agreed to push vigorously for a program of increased trade; they proposed a plan for greater sharing of information and skills, including the eventual production of missiles in Europe. Clearly, as President Eisenhower said in Paris, the big task now lay in carrying forward "the results of deliberations...
...ICBM would be operational in two years, but he cast doubt on the value of his prediction by showing painful gaps in his information. Pointing to Defense Department claims that the Atlas program has been stepped up, Counsel Weisl asked Douglas whether the manufacturer, Convair, had been told to push ahead faster. Replied Douglas: "I believe so ... I cannot answer personally-of my own knowledge." (Afterwards Weisl disclosed that he had been in touch with Convair that morning and been told that the Pentagon had not yet directed the firm to speed up the Atlas program.) Later...
...approach has failed (TIME, Dec. 23), Chairman Harold D. Cooley of the House Agriculture Committee declared that Benson "won't get to first base" with his proposal to lower the support floor under basic crops from 75% of parity to 60%. Instead, vowed North Carolinian Cooley, Democrats will push for a return to rigid 90% supports-a tried-and-true method of boosting farm surpluses...
...force, not the 4.5% estimated as the peak for 1958. Moreover, total employment (which tumbled 975,000 in 1954) is expected to rise by the end of '58 above the total at the end of '57. Economists look to the changing nature of the U.S. economy to push the employment totals higher-and also cut back the rise in unemployment. As industry puts up new plants incorporating automation, production line workers play a steadily decreasing role, now total only 20.4 million of the labor force...
...spending also means that inflation, which dogged the U.S. throughout 1957, will still be present in 1958. The defense speedup may well take up all the deflationary slack in the U.S. economy, and push on from there. While missiles do not require the mountainous raw materials of tanks and planes, they need more and higher-paid skills, on an ever-spreading base. In turn, this means more money in the pockets of consumers for more autos, more appliances, more luxuries of all kinds...