Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Helicopters. How can the U.S. help? Conventional tactics against the shadowy Viet Cong, a Vietnamese official pointed out last week, are "like playing soccer with a tennis racket." Despite an impressive speedup in the flow of U.S. supplies, for example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem...
...number of reinforcements for the Seventh Army from 40,000 to 50,000 since the Berlin crisis began. At his press conference, Kennedy took special pains to detail the buildup in U.S. military strength in recent months: a $6 billion jump in the armed forces' budget, a 50% speedup in the contruction of Polaris submarines, a 400% increase in production of the M-14 rifle, the calling up of two divisions...
...good-neighborly mixture of determined English and halting Spanish, laid out the goals for hemispheric development? The bare framework of the formal Alliance has just been hammered together, but the U.S. is not awaiting treaties or paper proclamations before turning on the stream of dollars. In a striking speedup of aid since President Kennedy's speech last March, 99 loans, totaling $973 million in hard cash and credits, have been pumped into Latin America as convincing evidence that the U.S. intends to put its money where its sentiments...
...EXPORT-IMPORT BANK. Restricted by law to financing the purchase of specific U.S. goods and services by foreign nations, the Ex-Im Bank has broadened its mission to include general lines of credit to Latin American countries for basic development projects. Extent of the speedup: 18 loans for $456.3 million (mostly for U.S.-made road-building machinery and agricultural equipment) since March, v. nine loans worth $280 million in the same six months last year...
...Reuther knew that the Kennedy Administration was pressing for a quick settlement. On the strength of repeated hints dropped by Arthur Goldberg, Detroit became convinced that the Administration was prepared to take extraordinary action in case of an auto strike that might jeopardize the business recovery and the defense speedup. While General Motors figured it could economically risk a walkout, it also figured that to do so would only invite prompt government intervention that very likely would enforce the same kind of settlement that G.M. accepted voluntarily...