Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...underlying weakness of the Brussels plan of action is French inaction. If the French rearm rapidly, they will have less cause to fear German rearmament. But the French government is so deeply committed to a "go slow" policy on French rearmament that there seems little chance of a speedup...
...Such a speedup, the New York regents pointed out, would make it possible for many a student to squeeze in at least a year of college before induction. The regents were not asking New York schools to adopt their suggestion until Washington settles on an over-all national service plan. But when Washington does, the regents thought, accelerated high-school courses would become "a patriotic duty...