Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense Bomarc, a ramjet-powered interceptor that is designed to kill enemy aircraft 350 miles away and 60,000 ft. up. Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more...
Late-arriving delegates brought alarming news. Some 10,000 people, demonstrating in the Liteiny Prospekt in support of the Constituent Assembly, had been dispersed by Red gunfire. Witnesses reported that dozens of bodies lay bloodily in the snow. We had hoped that two crack regiments, the Semyonov and the Preobrazhensky would act in defense of the Assembly. Now word came that they had decided to remain neutral; they would neither go into the streets against the demonstrators nor join with them. Like other regular army units, they believed that all that was at stake was a simple misunderstanding between...
...There has been little modern evidence to support either the effectiveness or the wisdom of the monetary policy," they said. Galbraith and Harris, in their list of four objections to the policy, called it "costly, ineffective, and dangerous," and said that "it discriminates as between the small and weak borrower and the great corporation...
...disclosure of fund investments on the stock market have little foundation. Mutual funds, with some $10.5 billion in stocks and bonds, are required to publish their investments at least twice a year, and there has been no visible damage to the market. So far, the Administration has potent support from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who is in favor of full disclosure of the finances of funds, including those run by management as well as by unions...
...Army signed a $51.8 million contract with Chrysler Corp., Detroit, covering $21.8 million in continuing procurement of the 200-mile-range Redstone missiles and $30 million for finishing the tooling up and ground support for the longer-range (1,500-mile) Jupiter missile...