Word: ropewalk
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Some time this year the Navy will close the coffee-roasting plants it started in 1858 because it was not satisfied with the quality or cost of commercial coffee. It will put on a stand-by basis the Boston Ropewalk, a cordage factory it opened in 1834 because good rope was not available commercially. The Air Force is now contracting with private businessmen for 50% of all maintenance of engines, radios, etc., v. 21% in 1952. Government motor pools are being dried up; in San Antonio the Fourth Army has started using public taxis and buses for most official business...
...Such nonessential activities drain off men and money that could better be used for the defense of the nation. But cutting back almost any Government activity brings protests from Capitol Hill. For example, Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy has already protested to the Navy against shutting down the Ropewalk, on the grounds that it is necessary to the "national interest." In the huge, amorphous layers of Government, not even the experts can calculate how much money has been saved to date by the get-out-of-business campaign. But the most encouraging thing to businessmen is less the money...
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