Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about $80 billion from the current year's $77.5 billion, but the soaring economy may produce revenues as high as $86 billion. If so, President Eisenhower, when he unveils his new budget in January of election year 1960, will be able to point to a hefty surplus to use for denting the national debt or nicking taxes, or both...
...Help train French personnel in use of nuclear equipment...
...them all, Rhode Island's 91-year-old Senator Theodore Francis Green, was certain that such an attack by a national chairman on fellow Democrats was "most unusual and, I believe, completely without precedent." A member of the National Committee himself, Green sternly warned Butler not to use his office as "a gun pit from which to fire on Democratic candidates...
...these criticisms missed the essential point that deterrent power will deter only to the extent that the enemy is convinced of the U.S.'s willingness to use it -and the willingness would be a lot plainer if the nation's citizens had the protection of fallout shelters. Said the task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear...
Scandal-starved Washington cocked an expectant ear for a star-spangled shocker when, two months ago, a House subcommittee set out to find out whether retired military officers were being hired by defense contractors to use undue influence on old friends and former colleagues in the Pentagon. Last week the House Armed Services Investigation subcommittee sat down to take testimony, produced only a couple of stars, few spangles, no scandal...