Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American strength would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase in European strength. But prosperous Europe shows few signs of wanting to shoulder the burden; West Germany, for example, considers any further expansion of the Bundeswehr out of the question. Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military one, and few observers outside of the Army are convinced that it has to stay at its present strength of 210,000 men in order to be effective. Under pressures from the Viet Nam war, the Pentagon has already ordered a "drawdown" of 30,000 officers...
...leading composers were summoned to a meeting and warned of the evils of the unmelodious music of Western modernists. Stick to "socialist realism," they were told. Under Nikita, the malady lingered on. Said he: "We flatly reject this cacophony music. Our people cannot use this rubbish as a tool of their ideology...
Construction men now use the whirlybirds to lift church steeples and TV towers, telephone poles and prefab homes. The machines have become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion...
...today, the main lift in the industry's fortunes has come from Viet Nam. The Defense Department last year took 80% of the $875 million output of the seven major producers: Textron's Bell Helicopter, Boeing-Vertol, United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division, Kaman, Hughes Tool, Fairchild-Hiller and Brantly, which was acquired last week by Lear Jet Corp. This year the Pentagon will spend $1.3 billion for 3,156 choppers, absorb 90% of U.S. production...
Missiles & Satellites. Often lost in the legend is the fact that Hughes has scored some remarkable business successes. He has increased his $16 million inheritance to a net worth of at least $1.5 billion. His Houston-based Hughes Tool Co. makes huge profits from leasing and selling drilling equipment, and from selling Hughes helicopters. California-based Hughes Aircraft Co. is a $300 million electronics firm that makes the Falcon missile and fire-control and electronic systems for fighter planes. On top of his TWA holdings, Hughes owns real estate in Phoenix, Tucson, and Culver City, Calif., that is worth...