Word: assigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operational matters. The old requirement that the services must be "separately administered," now reads "separately organized," i.e., the Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority to assign weapons to services as he sees fit, a powerful weapon in itself for putting an end to service rivalries...
...Defense Secretary. Recognizing this broadened role, the bill enlarges the J.C.S.'s Joint Staff from 210 officers to 400, and, while shying from any idea of a general staff, effectively makes the J.C.S. chairman more powerful than he had ever been by giving him power to assign duties to the Joint Staff. The bill also authorizes the three service chiefs who are J.C.S. members to delegate their service duties-but not responsibilities-to their vice chiefs...
...major accident. This kind of performance encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron to assign three passenger models to Washington for use by the President and other top U.S. dignitaries...
...proposals, now awaiting action by the Hospital, call for either modifications in the rotation system or a new plan which would assign students to a single department for all their work. Crespin stressed that any change in assignments must be approved by the Hospital...
Recent cases of men accosting Radcliffe students walking along Garden St. to the Radcliffe Quad have led Cambridge police to assign special inspectors to work in this area, an official of the department stated last night. However, no arrests have yet been made...