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The Big Guns. Pentagon Power
Josephson, Matthew | January 14, 1956 issue

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Today the most prominent feature of the U.S. economy and national policy is their military program. Yet America was formerly regarded as the most unmilitary of the great powers. It used to be said that the business of' America is business. Now the biggest business is national defense, the largest business the world has ever seen it as called by General Lucius D. Clay, American quarter-master-general of World War II. The hundreds of billions people have been spending on war and on armaments or infernal machines for defense since the war would make Calvin Coolidge, frugal President of a generation ago, turn in his grave.

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ECONOMIC policy; GOVERNMENT policy; MILITARY readiness; WORLD War, 1939-1945; MILITARY weapons; UNITED States
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