Word: stacks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justifications submitted by the military, for instance, made a stack of papers which "would extend, I should judge, some 24 inches upward from the table." Nor did the committee get much help from the White House or the Pentagon. "Budget estimates were not received from the President until the last day of April [the law says that they should be submitted to Congress in the first 15 days of its session...
...Asked for It went on the air last January in Los Angeles, broadcasting pleasant sights such as $1,000,000 in cash ($10 bills arranged in 25 stacks, each stack worth $40,000). But it soon began to specialize in the dark, secret longings of its audience. Some longings that were too dark and secret to grant: several requests to see a man electrocuted; a re-enactment of Joan of Arc burning at the stake, requested by a Minneapolis classroom; a 60 m.p.h. head-on crash of two cars...
...watchdogging (which is also a proper part of its function), spending twelve weeks arguing about the President's right to send troops to Europe, twelve weeks investigating crime, eight weeks investigating the MacArthur affair. But much of that activity would resolve into nothing more than a stack of faded clippings. Meanwhile, "the world's greatest legislative body" dragged confusedly along on its main work...
...this better and quicker, the materials-handling makers last week displayed hundreds of their latest products ranging from cranes and monorail conveyors to the ubiquitous forklift trucks which are already creating their own folklore. They can raise heavy loads (up to 40 tons) up an elevatorlike track, and stack them as high as 15 ft. above the floor Some of the new trucks came equipped with interchangeable accessories-forks for lifting boxes, steel fingers for grabbing big rolls, e.g., newsprint. One model boasted a two-way radio, by which its driver could be directed to any corner of a plant...
...those figures stack up against U.S. strength, present and planned? At the moment, the Air Force has little better than nine fighter-bomber wings-some 675 aircraft-available for support of U.S. ground forces overseas. The bulk of them are in Korea. In the blueprint for a 95-wing Air Force, there will be roughly 18 tactical wings of this kind, equivalent to one for each of the contemplated 18 U.S. divisions. At best, the 95-wing Air Force, properly equipped with the newest airplanes, is still at least 18 months away...