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  • The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

    Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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