Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, at the same Washington meeting, President Eisenhower made the vital point that the U.S. economic system is not enough as a shield-but through liberalized trade and the effective use of a world economic policy, it can be forged into a war-winning offensive weapon...
...champion, Epee Expert James Margolis, was sidelined with a pulled tendon, Columbia University swordsmen lunged across the ballroom of The Bronx's Concourse Plaza Hotel with such swashbuckling skill that they piled up 71 points in foil, épée and saber bouts, and won the three-weapon intercollegiate title. Second: N.Y.U. with 66. ¶ The Fish and Wildlife Service reported an alltime record sale of 19,276,767 fishing licenses and 14,918,416 hunting licenses in fiscal 1957. California, which led the U.S. in fishermen, reported a sobering development: the recession has driven its hunters...
...striker. But even if the reinstatement issue could somehow be arbitrated, the essential clash of stubborn wills would still remain. Herbert Kohler wants to keep U.A.W. out of his company altogether; Walter Reuther has to get U.A.W. in or suffer a humiliating defeat. Wielding the only weapon he has left, Reuther apparently intends to keep up the boycott until Herbert Kohler gives in or the company goes out of business. Compromise hardly seems possible any more. "It is almost sinful," says a U.A.W. official, "to have any labor dispute degenerate to the point this one has." Which was about...
...prevailing talk is rocketry, its failures and its triumphs. One restaurant is fitting out its roof garden with telescopes; sons of missilemen are shooting their own miniature rockets; a ladies' luncheon club has dubbed itself the Missile Misses; and no sooner does a contractor develop a new weapon than a new motel (e.g., Polaris, Vanguard) of the same name springs up in the scrub...
SOVIET GOLD DIGGERS may lead world production this year. In 1957 Soviets turned out about 38% of world gold supply-17 million 02. worth $595 million-to match the longtime leader, South Africa. Gold hoard gives Soviets potent economic weapon to fight balance-of-trade deficits...