Word: vital
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience in Mach 3 flight. It is not an airliner itself; it carries only a three-man crew, and most of its fuselage is crammed with fuel. But the great supersonic airliners that the U.S. is anxious to start building will fly at All speed and altitude. In many vital aspects they will be the children of Kelly Johnson's latest creation...
...sense, terribly convincing. The rhetoric and stinging satire are still present, but now the generalizations are not quite as sweeping, the attacks and conclusions not quite as unbelievable. In this book, one need not agree whole-heartedly with Arevalo in order to admit that he has some vital points to make. Fidel Castro's rise to power and the Panama Canal crisis are far less shocking when one realizes that Arevalo's arguments have been read widely in Latin America for many years...
...sense, terribly convincing. The rhetoric and stinging satire are still present, but now the generalizations are not quite as sweeping, the attacks and conclusions not quite as unbelievable. In this book, one need not agree whole-heartedly with Arevalo in order to admit that he has some vital points to make. Fidel Castro's rise to power and the Panama Canal crisis are far less shocking when one realizes that Arevalo's arguments have been read widely in Latin America for many years...
...Panama will probably work out a compromise eventually. But even then, the Panama Canal problems will not be ended. The canal has long ago ceased to be a vital military waterway for the U.S., and as an avenue of world trade it is rapidly growing obsolete. What is needed is a brand-new canal...
...nation has worked the trick quite so well as West Germany, where the funds still play a vital role, particularly in harried Berlin. This year $120 million will be channeled into loans for Berlin businesses; another $210 million will be used to help Germany's ailing shipbuilders, to finance sales of German goods to underdeveloped countries and to provide $85 million in new credit for the capital-short German economy. Germany has made its Marshall Plan money work particularly hard from the very first by setting up a special Bank for Reconstruction to administer most of the funds...