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...where built-in safeguards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms program tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...
...built-in safe guards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms pro gram tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...
...real guided missiles (rocket-or jet-propelled and guided by radar). Ten years ago, in World War II, the Navy itself had successfully used a pilotless plane, controlled by radio and aimed by television, in simulated attacks on a destroyer. In the same way, the Army had sent worn-out B-17s against German V-2 launching bases...
...Mile Stench. Pusan is a city of filth, poverty and disease-yet it is the major supply port of the Korean war. Its harbor is jampacked with ships from nearly a score of nations, bringing in fresh men and equipment, taking out the wounded and sick and wrecked or worn-out equipment. Pusan's days & nights are noisy with the clatter of U.S. military traffic, ancient taxis, rachitic streetcars (some from Atlanta), and the snorting and lowing of oxen. In dry weather dust all but obscures the city's one traffic light, which is attended by a listless...
...enough to strait-jacket Kirk Douglas with this type of worn-out Western. Warner Brothers errs even further by creating a nutty Druid-like sect of tree worshippers who sport Amish hats and stand around righteously in the path of falling redwoods. Californians are admittedly capable of almost anything, but this is just too much to take. Then, in the agonizingly protracted struggle between timbermen and believers, Douglas goes gooey and joins the Druids (who have given up their ethical principles and taken up arson...