Word: tradeoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for the $1.1 billion tradeoff between Air Force funds and foreign aid was that Air Force General Curtis LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, had testified that the Russians will soon have a larger bomber force than the U.S. A more direct reason was that 1956 is an election year, and giving money to the Air Force is more attractive politically than handing it over to "foreigners...