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...spending also means that inflation, which dogged the U.S. throughout 1957, will still be present in 1958. The defense speedup may well take up all the deflationary slack in the U.S. economy, and push on from there. While missiles do not require the mountainous raw materials of tanks and planes, they need more and higher-paid skills, on an ever-spreading base. In turn, this means more money in the pockets of consumers for more autos, more appliances, more luxuries of all kinds...
...both parties. The second day was spent reviewing domestic programs with Republicans, headed by Senate Leader Bill Knowland and House Leader Joe Martin. The meetings were held weeks earlier than usual, so as to give ranking members of Congress a chance to participate in the formulation of policy. The speedup was hardly a success: Republicans were indignant because the Democrats were called in so early; Democrats, who had long fumed at being left out until the last moment, now complained that they had not been informed of the proposals to be discussed...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--Sen. Flanders (R-Vt.) called on President Eisenhower today to balance a projected speedup in missile production with a comprehensive plan for future world disarmament...
...chief of the 1918 St. John's yearbook. The Trumpeter. Barely 17. he was one of the youngest cadets ever admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. At the age of 18, graduating 148th out of 270 in one of World War I's speedup classes, he was one of the youngest cadets ever commissioned...
...must come down from 50,000 ft. to 18,000 ft. and from 650 m.p.h. to a stall-warning 250 m.p.h. to hook on to SAC's prop-driven KC-97 tankers (the equivalent of Boeing's old airline Stratocruisers). Remedy: a speedup of supply of the KC-135 jet tankers now dribbling into the Air Force at the rate of about four a month...