Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Soldier Twining's point reflected Dwight Eisenhower's growing irritation at admirals and generals who have used the committee's platform to sound off for favorite causes that have been overruled. But all the military discipline in Washington could not erase the shattering charge by the missilemakers themselves that the U.S. is falling far short of doing all it can in the missile program...
...five more than in the previous fiscal year of 1954-55. There were similar modest rises in other brackets; e.g., those with incomes of $16,800 or more after taxes rose from 200 to 600. But Britain was not as poor as the Treasury figures annually make it sound. "Taxable" income is far from the only income received by well-heeled Britons. All capital gains, whether they come from securities, real-estate deals or winnings on the horses, are taxexempt...
...dock and airstrip building near Anchorage, road surveys and right-of-way proceedings along the Alaska Railroad, and talk of a $58 million contract awarded the Drake-Puget Sound Construction Co. for a job near Mount McKinley National Park add up to one thing to Alaskans: preparation for a string of U.S. ballistic missile bases. Sited along the Alaska Railroad, such bases could launch intermediate-range missiles that would reach Russian bases on the eastern tip of Siberia, intercontinental missiles that could arc across the Pole to Moscow and beyond. The U.S. bases would have the advantage of North America...
...Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian firmness." At the entrance to the auditorium we passed under a third scrutiny. The footfalls of armed men and the clatter of weapons made the colonnaded hall sound like a barracks...
...would be followed by a series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late 1960-provided the Government adopts the plan soon-Atlas would push a manned hypersonic glider (five times the speed of sound) into orbit, finally lift freight ships into space to provide living quarters for a new generation of space residents. Not content with this plan, General Dynamics' scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes") to explore outer space. Surveying such projects...