That was what they called MIC contractors when I was a kid. It was a term imbued with evil, a perjorative on the same level as a Nazi, rapist or murderer.
Then the Cold War with its 'better dead than red' propaganda started; and people never restarted thinking straight again. Besides, there was good money to be made by some.
Eisenhower was caught up in the paradigm that many from WW2 were; they were adamant that it would not happen again, just as the Jews said about Germany, 'never again.' Vigilant to the point of vociferous opposition to any other way to do things.
Eisenhower still had some of the older values in him and put a tax on the firms that made a fortune supplying the means to victory over Germany, no gratitude really, he knew what they were.
It was punitive and used to build infrastructure by taking back their profits. Possibly the highest tax rate, IIRC, it was 90%.
The Birchers have been running on preventing the castles of the super rich from being stormed by the tax man ever since that time to take back their booty from a nation in dire straits and in a war against a foe that intended no less than world domination. There is no such nation to carry this out now. Instead, other groups are doing the same thing.
When the words profit, jobs, contracts and the like in terms of national policy and specifically anything militatistic or coercive are eliminated as from public discourse as being a criminal act, we will see the end of this. But we are faced with a media that tells our fellows otherwise.
There are things on this planet that cannot be justly measured by profit or even humans. We have no right to do many of the things we do, we are abusing our privileges and killing that which gives life.
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