Word: rearmaments
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...Canal, the announcement of a whacking new dollar deficit) had smitten the country just before and during the campaign, but none had found more than a hollow echo in the banalities of electioneering. They were too much a fault of the times to provide political ammunition. The necessity for rearmament was not an arguable point but a sober fact, demanding some ?1,300 million of expenditure by the voters in 1951-52, regardless of which party...
...Communists started it by proposing to reunite East and West Germany (TIME, Oct. 8). They hoped to disrupt rearmament, and candidly said so. "You don't have to be a Columbus to make that discovery," said. Red Propagandist Gerhart Eisler...
...section of an airplane wing, and cost as much as $400,000 (see cut). Even the giants are operated by only one or two workers, and speedily perform chores that would otherwise take dozens of workers or could not be done at all. Machine tools are the key to rearmament; because their production is months behind schedule, the entire rearmament program is lagging seriously...
Schumann warned Americans that they should not be too hard on Europe in their demands for rearmament. He compared Europe's position to that of an injured mountain climber, who has just reached the stage of throwing away his crutches. Then, all of a sudden, he is told that he has to climb a further mountain. He will go out and do all he can, but that will not be as much as before the accident. "He needs a stronger rope and a friend's arm to make the necessary effort...
...friction at supersonic speeds, a way had to be found to cool their cockpits. Ramsaur's turbine provided the answer; by putting an engine's heat to work turning the turbine, it cooled the air by expanding it, shot the air into the cockpit. As rearmament got under way, Garrett began turning out a total of 700 accessory products. With the Navy order for the self-starter, Garrett Corp. has a $120 million backlog, enough to keep 5,500 workers on three shifts busy for at least the next three years...