Word: vastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would he release the highly publicized Gaither report (TIME, Dec. 2) that warns of the perilous position of the U.S. in its arms race with Russia and advocates a stepped-up arms program and vast bomb shelter project? No, said the President, he would not. He needs the advice of Government and citizen panels. In order for them to know what they are talking about they have to be entrusted with top-secret information. Therefore he must always insist that the "conclusions they reach and the advice they give me is of a privileged character...
...this kind of climate the Defense Department announced a decision as grave as any that Neil McElroy has yet made: the vast, complex job of building a weapons system to intercept and destroy an attacking missile will be split in effect between two hotly competitive services. The Army will expand its Nike series with a contra-missile called Nike Zeus, and the Air Force will develop the missile radar-detection system to go with it. Both will be under McElroy's missile boss, William Holaday, at least until McElroy's pet project, an Advanced Research Projects Agency, gets...
...state of the Pentagon. "It reminds me," said he, "of a skein of yarn with which the cat has been playing for years. It is badly snarled and loose ends stick out all over. . . It cannot be untangled by wrapping more yarn on the outside. . . It is a big, vast, intricate thing, and I don't think you can wind another committee or another czar or another group on the outside of a tangle and straighten out the tangle...
...company into more profitable fields. Pace would like to increase General Dynamics' nonmilitary business to 50%. Convair is turning out jet-powered 880 airliners (though sales have so far been disappointing). Stromberg-Carlson is bending its efforts toward new and better electronic computers that could open up vast new commercial markets for General Dynamics. And last fall the corporation worked out a merger through an exchange of stock with Liquid Carbonic, an international producer of industrial and medical gases...
Gervaise. Emile Zola's L'Assommoir, a vast cry of rage at man's fate, diminished by French taste into a touching story of a woman's ruin; with Maria Schell (TIME...