Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with revived energy, the President has suddenly come to feel at home with his big and little political powers. Never before has he used his veto weapon with such telling effect as in his refusal to sign the recent whole-hog rivers and harbors pork barrel (TIME, April 28) and the Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead...
...bombs-even "inserted something that makes them dirtier." The Defense Department denied it. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss resented it. President Eisenhower said at his news conference: "We have looked constantly to cleaner bombs so that you could have a more local and advantageous use of the nuclear weapon rather than just a shotgun method...
...developed to maintain peace other than through arms." That being the stark fact, Rhyne suggested that it was high time for the U.S. State Department under International Lawyer John Foster Dulles to set up a new section staffed with experts to concentrate on law as a positive weapon in achieving and maintaining peace...
POTENT ANTISTRIKE weapon has come from ICC. It ordered truckers and railroads to give pickup and delivery service to customers that are hit by strikes, picketing or labor fights. Rule knocks out labor contracts that permit Teamsters to honor picket lines...
Price stickiness, excessive and compulsive advertising, administered prices, and other undesireable consequences of oligopoly are problems which certainly should be considered in formulating anti-recession policy. Techniques for combatting economic ills are, of course, imperfect, and there exists no single effective anti-recession weapon. Any sophisticated discussion of economic policy must recognize the need for a variety of approaches, applied with varying degrees of emphasis throughout the spectrum of the economy...