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...helicopter boom has been military. Only two cities, Chicago and Los Angeles, use helicopters as certified mail carriers. But Igor Sikorsky thinks the speedup in production and research is fast bringing the day when jet-powered helicopters will carry 50 passengers at 150 m.p.h. When that day conies, he expects the helicopter to come of age and be the short-haul bus that the airways have always needed...
United is not the only one to feel the speedup. Some $300 million is being spent by the military for 600 helicopters (as many as were made in all of World War II), and for research and development of new models...
Sale called for an immediate increase in the armed forces (with conscription if needed), a speedup in defense production, higher taxes, and a ban on the Communist Party. Said he: "We have the wherewithal for a defense effort ten times greater than the puny program now in effect...
...declaring a national emergency three weeks ago, the President said: "We will have a very rapid speedup in the production of military equipment. Within one year, we will be turning out planes at five times the present rate of production . . . Combat vehicles will be coming off the production line at four times today's rate . . . Production of electronics equipment for defense will have multiplied four-and-a-half times...
That sounded like a fairly rapid speedup; actually, it wouldn't be. Quintupling present plane production would mean about 15,000 planes a year, about 5,800 more than one month's production at World War II's peak. Military electronic production is small; quadrupling it will be an easy job for the enormous new electronics industry. (In 1950, Motorola's $175 million output of radio and television sets alone was about equal to the output of the entire radio industry in 1940.) Combat vehicle production is also negligible. At year...