Word: vital
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haste to placate a public which, as always, seeks tax reductions, Congress can seriously jeopardize vital services by making cuts which will have little or no revenue significance. The Senate subcommittee now considering the House's reduction of the Weather Bureau's budget should restore the funds, and convince the House to do likewise...
Nagging Worries. One newsman quoted a State Department official as saying that "the U.S. would come to the aid of Jordan if it were attacked." Did this mean that the Eisenhower Doctrine would apply, assuming that Jordan's King Hussein requested help? The President cited two vital instruments that are applicable: 1) "The May 25th [1950] statement, which was an effort to promote peace in the area as between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, in which the U.S. joined with Britain and France in saying we would come to the aid of the victims if either were attacked...
...SETAF's hands rest the vital early weapons of the Atomic Age: the rocket Honest John and the guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...
...watching my cows eat grass." But to Addis Ababa last week journeyed James Prioleau ("Dick") Richards of Heath Springs, S.C. A longtime (1933-56) Congressman, Democrat Richards, 62, had dutifully postponed his fishing and cow watching to undertake, at President Eisenhower's request, a mission as vital to the success of U.S. foreign policy as any since the Korean...
...probably the fastest growing is Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., which is a bare three years, seven months old. When it was started in 1953, Ramo-Wooldridge had nothing except the brains of its brilliant founders. President Dean E. Wooldridge and Executive Vice President Simon Ramo. The company now has the vital task of running the technical end of the U.S. Air Force ballistics missile program, and its sales this year will hit $50 million...