Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a competitive standpoint, Pan Am made the deal with De Havilland because it had little choice. Unlike any other U.S. line, Pan Am competes around the globe with British airways. As long as the British intend to put Comets on their routes, Pan Am has to have jets ready also, if only for prestige and to gain jet plane experience. There was no doubt that the British had won an important skirmish in the battle for commercial jet supremacy. The victory may also turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to American plane builders. They...
...facts clearly show that the type of air transport capable of meeting the requirements for worldwide fleet replacement does not exist; such an aircraft still is pretty much on the drawing board both here and abroad. At this time, this country has a distinct advantage from the standpoint of future power plants both as to size and fuel economy. The realistic conclusion ... is that we are not behind the British with respect to the jet transports that will comprise the air fleets of the future. Rather, we are probably in position to accomplish more quickly the final objective of world...
...cannot say that I agree with all of General Eisenhower's views on ... foreign policy . . . but I think it is fair to say that our differences are differences of degree . . . From my standpoint the essential thing is to keep our expenditures on armament and foreign aid as long as there is no general war, at a percentage of our total income which will not destroy our free economy at home and further innate our debt and our currency . . . General Eisenhower emphatically agrees with me in the proposal to reduce drastically overall expenses. Our goal is about $70 billion...
Deterrent Influence. "If a potential aggressor knew in advance that his aggression would bring that answer, then I am convinced that he would not commit aggression . . . Siberia and much of China, notably Manchuria, are vulnerable, from the standpoint of transport and communication . . . Is it not time that the Chinese Communists knew that if, for example, they send their Red armies openly into Viet Nam [Indo-China], we will not be content merely to try to meet their armed forces at the point they select . . . but by retaliatory action of our own fashioning...
...cleared up many things for the public." "Very well done, timely, very well worth reading," was the reaction of Paul J. McKinnon, division chief in the Boston office. Marion H. Allen, collector for Georgia, said: "It was a very interesting and informative story on taxes from an historical standpoint. It also gave me an insight into the background of income taxes which I had never had." San Francisco Collector Charles F. Masarik reported: "I noticed a group of our female employees gathered around the magazine, laughing at the cover. It was really good...