Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made this $56 billion act of faith, the committee whacked up the appropriation-$15.55 billion for the Navy, $19.85 billion for the Air Force, and $20.12 billion for the Army-and sat back to let the Senate take on the bureau chiefs of the Pentagon and bring out its version of the biggest pig in the most baffling poke...
...tanks. At Cadillac's new Cleveland plant, many light T-41 Walker Bulldogs are standing useless because of a shortfall in traversing mechanisms. The Army's Detroit arsenal is still the only other U.S. tank producer in full swing, has just begun to produce an improved version of the postwar General Patton tank (plus modernizing several hundred World War II Pershings, mostly for Korea). Principal trouble: the arsenal is used as a research and development center and as a repair depot, in addition to its production duties. World War II experience was that those three functions...
...Iliushin). Three-or four-place, twin-jet medium bomber. Speed, about 600 m.p.h.; range, around 2,000 miles; bombload, unknown, but a Red navy version has been fitted to carry a torpedo. Armament, two 37-mm. cannon in the nose, twin 12.7-mm. machine guns in side, top and tail turrets...
...Passed, by voice vote, the Battle bill empowering the President to halt military and economic aid to any nation selling "arms, ammunition, implements of war and atomic energy materials" to Communist countries (a more workable version of the Kem amendment, which the Administration has pigeonholed...
Alice in Wonderland (Lou Bunin; Souvaine), produced mainly in France with British actors and U.S. technicians, is the version whose release Walt Disney sued to block on the ground that it would cash in on his publicity (TIME, July 16). It turns its Alice (Carol Marsh) loose in a colorful wonderland of puppets and stylized sets after a live-action prologue purports to show how Mathematician Charles Dodgson cooked up his fantasy...