Word: pushbutton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite surprised to see a review of [my] article on guided missiles, which was published in the Marine Corps Gazette, in TIME for June 23. It is presented in the usual excellent TIME manner; however, there are three points which I would like to clarify: The caption "PushButton War" is looked upon unfavorably by scientists, engineers and military men in general. . . . Although the problem of propulsion is generally more advanced than that of guidance and control, it is by no means [true that] "Power supply is no problem." The suggestion that "Bat" and "Loon" are the only guided missiles...
...Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a repulsively antiseptic future world in which everything was done scientifically by push buttons and chemistry. Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the pushbutton world had already closed in on businessmen...
Tomorrow's pushbutton war got its first full-dress showing last week at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. On a dusty desert flat, surrounded by Salvador Dali mountains, hundreds of newsmen, photographers, scientists, U.S. and British generals, crouched behind hummocks at a safe distance. They watched a scene to horrify any man with imagination...
...While the labor leaders, industrial giants, and various Federal agencies jockey for top spots in the new era of pushbutton prosperity, the small manufacturers cannot even get the material to make the push buttons. Their labor costs rise whenever the powerful unions effect a wage boost, the cost of their raw materials goes up whenever the large corporations break through a price ceiling, and the daily changes in Federal rules multiply their clerical work and overhead costs...
...Congress would hear plenty from airmen about the battleship before the shape of the postwar Navy was finally set. It would also hear from the visionary pundits who would argue that this was the age of the atom bomb and the pushbutton war, and that there was no point in having a fleet...