Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Road to Inflation. When Humphrey had finished, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. took the stand, and without even noting that Prosperity was beautiful, grimly defended the Administration's "tight money" policy as an indispensable weapon against inflation. With the economy booming, he explained again, demand for credit tends to outrun supply, so interest rates push upward. For the Government to try to hold the rates down would be to follow "the road to inflation." The oft-raised claim that tight money presses unfairly on small business and local government is "debatable," Martin argued. Furthermore, frustrated borrowers...
...with better than average success. Wilson has buttressed civilian supervision of the armed forces, headed off Pentagon feuds, supervised a military arsenal that has changed more drastically in four years than at any other time in U.S. history. He has kept a rein on unnecessary crash programs of weapon development, insisted that if proven new weapons were phased into the defense program, old weapons should be phased out. All the while, Wilson has exercised an asset that was a prime reason for recruiting him. Handling the largest chunk of U.S. budget expenditures, he has gone a long way toward helping...
...weapon in the fight against juvenile delinquency may well emerge from the researches of Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, and Eleanor T. Glueck, research associate of Criminology, concerning the prediction of juvenile delinquency in young children...
...rated missile for -long-range antiaircraft defense, will go into operational use within the next twelve months under the first big production contract. Navy has placed $27 million order with Bendix Aviation Corp. for surface-to-air missile capable of carrying atomic warhead, will step up weapon's 75-mile range to 100 miles. Cruisers Little Rock and Galveston now are being converted to carry Talos...
...hulking 21, went bravely inside, peeled off his inconspicuous scarlet and black jacket and other trappings, permitted medicos to examine him. The doctors' verdict: a fine broth of a lad, pelvis and all, eligible for drafting-probably to serve in some special services division, tote some such gone weapon as a guitar. Before rolling off in his Caddie, Elvis allowed that the intelligence test he had taken was a breeze. Groaned the bobby-soxers' golden calf: "Di'nt seem hard a'tall. Ah'm sure Ah passed...