 | Aeronautics - 1959 - 956 pages
...necessary even more, will ruin the American way of life is slight $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ CONTINUID indeed. It is even less likely that there is some...military prudence. We can afford what we have to afford. But we are also convinced that the economic costs of national security can be held down by a system... | |
 | Aeronautics - 1958 - 496 pages
...defense expenditures that, if exceeded, would bring economic disaster; rather, the impairment of , by increasing taxes is a gradually rising one. "We have not reached the point at which anxiety ( the healthy functioning of the economy demands i fense expenditures be... | |
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The risk that defense spending of from 10 to 15 per cent of the gross national product, or if necessary even more, will ruin the American way of life is slight indeed. It is even less likely that there is some magic number for defense expenditures that,... 