Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he would set up an advisory body, composed of military and civilian scientific experts, to be known as the Weapons System Evaluation Group. This group would provide "unprejudiced and independent" evaluation of new weapons (e.g., improved atom bombs, rockets, etc.) and would advise on which service could best use them. Thus, it could get at the heart of the matter. It could, by defining the use of weapons, define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could, in short...
...line flipflops that make the headlines, but they do not change the core of theory and program. To understand the manipulable strategy and tactics, Stalin's followers - and his intended victims - have to understand the inner theory and program. Historicus puts his heaviest stress on Stalin's use of fixed theory right along with and intermeshed with shifting tactics. Stalin employs both, simultaneously. Most politicians of the West tend to bear down on one or the other, in a given situation...
Most branches of technology have a backlog of unfinished business: basic principles worked out theoretically but not yet put to use. With jet propulsion, it is just the opposite. Practical jet engineers are already working close to the limits of theoretical knowledge. Ahead of them lies a blank area which the "longhairs" (theoretical men) have hardly begun to explore...
...elements of the final system are even designed as yet, but CAA is sure they will all be ready and in use by 1963. Total cost for theoretically near-total air safety...
...same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...