Word: push
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would be even more persuasive if a lot of defense experts did not argue just as plausibly that it would make more sense to narrow the missile gap by speeding up development of Minuteman. If defense funds were unlimited, it would doubtless be well to push ahead with both the B70 and Minuteman-and build more B-58s, more Polaris submarines and more Atlases, make SAC more secure by dispersing its bases, and hasten modernization of Army equipment too. But every defense budget, whether it totals $41 billion or $51 billion, must have a limit, must make choices between alternative...
Polaris & Minuteman. The decision to bet on the future of the Polaris and Minuteman systems, and to put up with a missile gap in the meantime as a calculated risk, entails a responsibility to push Polaris and Minuteman as fast as possible in order to shorten the duration of the gap. But the 1961 defense budget provides for starts on only three Polaris submarines (nine have been authorized by Congress). And although the U.S. is depending upon Minuteman to close the missile gap in 1963-64, the Administration is doing next to nothing to assure that when Minuteman is ready...
...seriously envision a future Harvard where herds of dull and nasty little deans and silly pin-headed, tenured boobs will gallop around alternately alabaster and basalt towers; where, while the rest of the faculty has departed for Stanford and Johns Hopkins, a number of University professors will remain to "push back the frontiers of knowledge" and give an annual series of three lectures (open to the public); where 48 undergraduate Houses will be connected by a subway system centered at University Hall Under, beneath the office of the Dean and Traffic Coordinator of Harvard College, who will encourage the purchase...
...with the rubbery solid fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps, tanks, valves and tubing. Instruments watch every part of their twisted intestinal tract and report...
...study goes on to explore another economic problem of the 1947-57 period: steadily rising prices even during recession when dropping demand should cut prices. Economist Schultze does not explain it in the usual terms of a wage push by hourly workers. Instead he cites businessmen themselves: in expectation of growing long-term demand, they loaded on new plants and machines, more nonproductive salaried engineers and managers, all heavy overhead items of fixed cost. When recession came, the businessmen were stuck; they could lay off hourly workers, but they still had to pay their fixed costs for plants and highly...