Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thank you for your Oct. 19 article on the space and rocket lag. Many thoughtful Americans agree that this is an emergency of alarming immediacy...
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...Americans have more than once shown our mettle. We must convince our leaders that we are not afraid to face facts and work and sacrifice if need be to preserve our nation and invigorate our championship of the free world before the Russians win the space race, the cold war and the allegiance of the uncommitted nations...
...that the Administration should be attacked in one of the few cases in which it shows any long-range foresight-the refusal to be stampeded into pouring useless billions into a worthless space race. If the American people want space superiority, they obviously can't get it for nothing; $10 billion a year will have to come from a reduction in defense weaponry or constructive welfare appropriations, or from a 20% increase in taxation...
...article dealing with our difficulties with space expresses the kind of realism I like to see. It strikes me as fantastic almost beyond belief that American missilemen are not allowed just $105 million to speed up Saturn tests four years; yet American farmers are given some $7 billion to increase the food bills of the American people...