Word: sustained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown by the analysis, is so enormous and so enduring as to suggest that the West has been underestimating its own relative strength. The report does not touch upon Red China, but other sources estimate the G.N.P. of that country at a mere $35 billion. Since that must first sustain 580 million Chinese, it is doubtful if Red China has available for military purposes one-tenth of what the U.S. is now spending for arms...
...around the world. The tactical squadrons will bear little resemblance to the one-purpose units of the past. Each will consist of 30 or more bombers, fighter-bombers, airborne tankers, cargo planes and communications aircraft. These will be welded in teams that can perform any tactical mission and can sustain themselves under battle conditions for at least 30 days without additional logistic support...
...program. Having helped Ike and HEW Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby reorganize the Government's newest Cabinet department, Rockefeller was ready for a broader assignment. Ike gave it to him, directing him to help the U.S. "seek to join with all peoples in a common effort to achieve and sustain the basic essentials of human dignity." In his new job, Nelson Rockefeller will have plenty to stimulate...
...half million 14 pound packages by next January 21. The government will supply and package food from its surplus; CARE will merely deliver it with funds gathered through fifty-cent and dollar contributions from citizens. For every dollar given here some needy family abroad will receive enough food to sustain it for a month...
...only the rhythms and the rhymes are there to sustain him. The true Lewis Carroll could only come later. Few children learn to love the Alice books at first sight. Their magic is too much born of the lonesomeness and the longing of a witty and sophisticated adult to return again to the gentle irresponsibilities of childhood and to view from there the absurdities of adult life. As a man, Lewis Carroll was an inspired escapist. As a boy, he seemed merely too anxious to be grownup. His bitterest plaint is that against a Victorian Good Fairy...