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Our own interest in this particular field was not very creat,
Ve went into long-range weapons, missiles, but they were
aerodynamic, They were not the ballistic missiles.
In other
words, we didn't go it all into the IRBii and the ICBils.
So when I came in here, I got two successive scientific con-
nittees to go into this thing and find cut whet was going on,
what we should be doing. And it took them quite a lonz time,
But along about a year and a half after the first committee
was organized, we believed that we knew what .2 should do, and
that was the first time that anything was rea’iy dedicated -any sizable sum -- to ballistic missiles of a long range. And
that was, the whole project was now put on first priority,
over every other expenditure,
But remember, with our curve starting over here, and theirs
here, we had to get a very steep one.
I thin’: we have constructed a very steep curve of accomplishment, but naturally
with that length of time, there are going to be sone incidents
here and there where we are not satisfied with our results.
But they are going ahead, and I believe we have the biggest,
strongest, finest body of scientists amply armed with money
to do the job, and that's that,
Nou, in the Far Gast,
I think our weaponry is in very good
sShupe, und our forces are in good shape.
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(Arrowsmith, Associated Press)
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