Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...v. $95. Most encouraging note in the report was that the services themselves, under McNamara's prodding, have actually become enthusiastic about saving money. The Navy, planning to buy 1,400 Sparrow air-to-air missiles, found it already had enough, scrapped the order at a saving of $45 million. The Marine Corps found it could adapt Army 120-mm. shells for use in its M103 tanks at a cost of 32#162 per shell instead of paying $95 each for new ones. The Army decided it could get along with $1,200,000 less worth of insect repellent...
...such barbarian ostentation as a limousine was hardly thinkable. Nonetheless, Mao has apparently decided to make the great leap forward in style. Peking has placed an order with Britain's decadent Rolls-Royce Ltd., for a $12,726 Silver Cloud Mark III and a $20,454 Phantom V. They should do a lot for his image at the Gate of Heavenly Peace, since with a little friendly assistance even the clock in a Rolls can be persuaded not to tick...
...clots do not show clearly on X rays, and neither do the dead areas of lung surface beyond them. But Dr. George V. Taplin of U.C.L.A. figured that he could spot them with a radioactive substance, which after injection into the veins would pile up at the arterial roadblocks while flowing freely through normal blood vessels. The next problem was to find a radioactive chemical that would do the job, and then disappear harmlessly-preferably a substance that occurs naturally in the human body...
Scrubbing the Borax. In the area of style changes, the furniture manufacturers are taking a lesson from the automakers: the American family spends an average of $100 a year on furniture v. $800 on cars and accessories. Now the furniture men have begun to shift styles more rapidly than usual to appeal to a nation of rising tastes. "Today's American furniture buyer is interested in three things," says Hampton Powell, president of Lane Co., a major manufacturer. "He puts style above all else, with quality second and price third...
...whose exports have raised the ire of competitors in both the U.S. and Europe. Now Japan has taken over from West Germany as the world's third largest producer, having turned out 34 million tons of high quality steel in the fiscal year that ended in March v. 33 million tons for the Germans...