Word: button
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...trains remain the same; but this year's line of new accessories is disappointing. The best of the new developments is a cattle car that, at the press of a button, opens its doors and ejects a load of steers into a waiting corral...
...little clearer view of exactly what it is that the Defense Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button on the much-talked-about "phantom orders"-which were supposed to put machine-tool factories to work on $750 million worth of war business almost overnight-Harry Truman's planners had been following the policy of gentling defense orders into the works so as not to disturb civilian production too much...
...little white frame Congregational church at Staffordville, Conn. (pop. 1,000) is the only Protestant church in town. Most of its 75 members-Italians, Poles, Czechs and some Yankees-work in the nearby button and belt factories...
...wage war are dead wrong. The U.S., he likes to point out, has so far spent $300 million on guided missiles ("only a starter"), while Nazi Germany spent $2 billion in developing the V-2 rocket alone-"a comparatively simple device." Says Kindelberger, prophet of the push-button war: "The public has no conception yet of what the guided missile means. The time is coming when the defense of the U.S. will be pretty much automatic...
...Indo-China crisis have been one long duel between Minister for the Associated States Jean Letourneau and Defense Minister Jules Moch. Letourneau is responsible for Indo-China, but he has lacked power to prosecute the war. Privately he is reported to have complained: "Whenever I need a uniform button I have to apply to Jules Moch for it. Whenever I need an additional franc I have to beg [Finance Minister] Maurice Petsche...