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Well-built roads can withstand any traffic. Engineeringwise, there is nothing to prevent the manufacture of quality pavements and the construction of quality roads. It is high time for highway officials to move into the 20th Century, and make an honest effort to come apace with the automotive industry...
...Acmy wrapped details in secrecy, but estimates were that the newly designed T-43 tanks would weigh up to 60 tons, be able to withstand the deadliest known antitank weapons. The T-43's own guns are automatically directed and controlled. Said Brigadier General David J. Crawford, boss of the Army's tank program: "They should outslug any land fighting machine ever produced." Since Chrysler already had a contract for a new 45-ton medium tank (TIME, Jan. 15), the new contract brought the corporation's total tank orders to $259 million, and total arms orders...
...suggested a plan of "deterrent" power that hinted at something less than U.S. garrisoning of Western Europe: 1) build up "enough economic and political vigor, enough military strength" around "the captive world" to withstand Communist aggression by civil war "or even by satellite attacks"; 2) hold unswervingly to the Atlantic Treaty's promise to fight Russia if she started all-out war-but keep the freedom to counterattack wherever & whenever the U.S. thought it would do the most good...
Providing course schedules permit, the A.M.P.'s meet in Hamilton at 11 a.m. each morning for coffee and discussion. Every Monday, they meet with notable people from heavy industry, other businesses, and education for a lecture. After delivering his talk, the lecturer has to withstand questioning from the assembled magnates. The lecturers claim they like it, though, because they feel for once they're working with a really interested audience...
...architectural information will be necessary, he said, when he builds his control center. Cronin wants to know how to construct a building which will withstand the effects of an atomic bomb. The exterior of the building will cost the city $150,000, he expects; the inside will probably cost double that figure...