Word: gap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...budget will include funds to get the Air Force started on a program to keep part of its nuclear-bomber force on airborne alert at all times until the missile gap is closed...
Russia's drive into missile technology, the committee warned, seems likely to give the enemy the world's first comprehensive missile arm. Result: "the greatest danger to its security that the United States has ever faced," in the form of a missile gap in the early 1960s. "There is as yet no active defense against an intercontinental ballistic missile in flight," warned the report, or any yet in sight. The report also found present liquid-fueled U.S. ICBMs to be wanting. Recommendation: "a most strenuous effort" behind solid-fuel missiles, e.g., the Air Force's Minuteman...
...reserves, plowing profits back into expansion. Nevertheless, the investors seem to be swinging around to the U.S. concept. In Brazil, where U.S. owners in 1945 held 95% of the stock in 67 companies, today they hold 95% in only 17 companies, as local capital moves in to fill the gap...
...continue to grow through 1965 at a rate of 6% a year. Thus, even if the U.S. G.N.P. increase rises to "our best postwar rate" of 3½% to 4%, Dulles predicted that by 1970 Russia's output will be 55% of the U.S.'s. The industrial gap may close even faster, says Dulles, since the Russians are expanding their industrial sector 8% or 9% a year, thus should attain 60% of U.S. industrial production by 1970 even if the U.S. industrial growth rate steps...
...accompanied by a general increase in national prosperity, an increase in agricultural production is a delusion-as the U.S. has learned in Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco. If the gap is not to widen, if undernourished peoples are ever to achieve Western standards, there must be a process of economic development inside the poorer countries so that increased industrialization will create a market for increased farm production...