Word: shoestringing
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A Z-Shaped Blast. The first Bikini A-bomb tests established his reputation for sagacity on a shoestring. Disdaining the elaborate, expensive apparatus that his U.S. colleagues set up to measure the blast, Penney filled 1,000 empty gasoline tins with sea water and sealed them with cardboard flaps. When...
A suave, clear-spoken critic and art historian. Sir Kenneth is taking over an institution that was started in 1940 as a shoestring wartime experiment. Its first job was to organize factory concerts, send repertory companies around the country, put artists to work painting war pictures.
On a Shoestring. But Korea was (and is) a war to drive the airmen mad. It siphoned off eleven combat groups just when the Air Force was straining to build to the 70 groups which it then deemed necessary for minimum U.S. defense. In Korea air power was forbidden to...
"While I was and am today against bombing across the Yalu," Vandenberg testified, "it does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that I might not be for it tomorrow . . . Hitting across the Yalu, we could destroy or lay waste all of Manchuria and the principal cities of China...
Profane Blast. The term "shoestring Air Force" irritated Congressmen who had appropriated a total of $35 billion for the U.S. Air Force since 1946. But in terms of the enemy's newly revealed seven-league boots, the point was all too valid. All last summer Vandenberg tried to make...