Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title has been given to a song is the fact that Timken tapered roller bearings, unlike old-style friction bearings, roll rather than slide. This is one of the features that will make it possible for the railroads to get a return of 22% on their investment when they equip all freight cars with roller bearings...
...straighten out matters for the future, Chalmers has proposed that the people of Benton City and the surrounding towns equip a small, six-bed hospital-clinic. Chalmers will then rent the hospital, get another doctor to join him. He hopes to assure the hospital of some funds by qualifying it as a treatment center for industrial-hospitalization plans. An added proviso: the town will take over Dr. Chalmers' bookkeeping...
...greatest program to provide J. dollar exchange for Europe since the Marshall Plan is the Offshore-Procurement Program. Through OSP, the U.S. buys war materials from European factories to equip NATO armies. In dollars, it amounts to far more than U.S. citizens spend through normal trade channels for Swiss watches, French wines or British sports cars. Yet, for all its size and importance, Offshore Procurement is one of the least talked about and least understood of all the many props the U.S. has built to bolster its allies...
...some, OSP sounds like a gigantic giveaway. Since 1952, $2.5 billion has been set aside to equip NATO soldiers with everything from Italian minesweepers to German radios. "We just buy from them what they need," quipped one brasshat, "and give it back." On the other hand, many careful planners think OSP is a godsend-the cheapest, most efficient way for the U.S. to defend itself. With OSP dollars, they argue, the U.S. gets such unique military bargains as the services of the Turkish army, which fights gallantly...
...began. Roosevelt was an interventionist. He saw the invasion of Belgium as a desperate threat to the fabric of international law. and denounced Wilson's "spiritless neutrality" in the face of it. ("I should have backed the protest by force.") Repeatedly he offered to furnish and equip a volunteer cavalry division for emergency war service. ("I and my four sons" were to be among its officers.) He was consistently turned down. He sat the war out, a "slacker malgre lui,'' ljut his sons went overseas with the Army as fast as he could get them there...