Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thus, the one area in which a common language has best chance to grow is that of ground rules for the great competition which dominates our time-some rules of the game-to keep it within bounds set by the conditions of co-survival...
...Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, met with Ike for four hours in the National's trophy room, was firmly reminded that the armed forces must accommodate themselves to a fairly level rate of spending. Emerging from the key session: a decision to keep defense spending at about $41 billion (TIME...
...meeting, McElroy told newsmen that the Air Force and Navy would each be cut by 5,000 men next year. Almost casually, he raised the NATO-jarring prospect of eventual reduction of the U.S.'s 650,000-man forces overseas. "It is possible over a period of time that other NATO countries will increase their contributions of strength, and that they may come to the conclusion that it might be to their own advantage that we deploy forces elsewhere." But such a decision, McElroy indicated happily, would fall in some future budget maker's lap. On his return...
...reduced spending rate, preserves the same high-sounding force goals for the future-but only pushes the future farther into the future. Actually, in the day of inexorable change the stretchout wastes more money than any other budget practice. It postpones operational dates on entire weapons systems beyond the time when they are needed, or are effective, lavishes funds upon them long after obsolescence. Items...
...sound concept before physicists found out how to fit a nuclear warhead into a ballistic missile. Had the Air Force's air-breathing Snark been pushed to completion on its original schedule three years ago, it could have filled a gap in U.S. air strength. By the time the first (and only) Snark wing was put into operation this year in Maine, Soviet defenses had more than caught up with it. Counting total development costs ($740 million), the Snark is one of the most costly, wings ever formed...