Word: rearmaments
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...Since rearmament boomed the U.S. aircraft industry's work force to 750,000, the A.F.L.'s International Association of Machinists and the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers have tried to outdo each other in demands on planemakers. Three months ago, in spite of war and the dangerously lagging aircraft program, the U.A.W. voted to strike North American Aviation, called it off only after it got an average 16?-an-hour pay boost on recommendation of the Wage Stabilization Board. The rest of the industry assumed that the award established a pattern...
Arms. First big issue on the Margate agenda was rearmament, denounced in two big package resolutions inspired by the Communists. They hewed closely to the Kremlin line: rearmament is warmongering; friendship with Germany and Japan is truckling with fascism; Americans in general and Dwight D. Eisenhower in particular are bloodthirsty counterrevolutionaries intent on provoking World...
...came more attractively wrapped. It was presented by Alan Birch, whose powerful union includes shop clerks and warehousemen; he carefully denied that his union was afflicted with the "Bevanite neurosis"-then deftly put the case for Bevan. Unlike the Communists and fellow travelers, he admitted the need for rearmament, but advocated sharp cuts. He temporarily swayed the congress, which gave him a lusty round of applause...
...military goods in Korea, only $34 billion had been delivered by June 30, two years later. A better cause for cautious optimism was that Mobilizer Fowler himself wants to speed up the stretched-out defense program. His first act as mobilization boss was to send word to the rearmament program's severest critic, Texas' Democratic Senator Lyndon Johnson, that he would do what he could to restore the original goals...
...passenger Comet III, whose prototype has not yet even been built. Said Rickenbacker: "If I were an Englishman, I would work day and night-including weekends-to keep the advantage they have." De Havilland's reply: it cannot boost commercial production and meet its rearmament quotas. Then, said Rickenbacker, it ought to license a U.S. maker who can mass-produce the Comet III. Echoed London's Daily Mail: "Britain . . . will have to scrap the outworn ideas and practices which have been hampering her industries since the end of the war. If we go dawdling along...