Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sending to Congress a Defense Department reorganization plan which, barring a congressional veto, will become law July 1. The plan straightens out the chain of command within the Defense Department, increases the authority of the civilian directors of the Department, and gives added power to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik's chief rival, 43-year-old Barrister Obafemi Awolowo. Usually...
...known. The trick is to do the job economically. A single pound of U-235 fuel contains as much potential energy as 2,600,000 lbs. of coal. The U-235 fuel is expensive, and to use it in a reactor requires a critical mass, enough to generate a chain reaction. Providing the critical mass is much the same as stockpiling the potential power in 10 million tons of coal before a single shovelful is used...
...Army hotel in NÜrnberg, Oatis, nervously chewing gum and chain-smoking, appeared before 100 newsmen for his first press conference. Asked about everything from his imprisonment and trial to his confession and treatment by the Reds, he seemed to find it hard to tell what he had undergone. Said he: "It would be very difficult for me to describe what happened so that I could be understood by anyone not familiar with such proceedings, or with what is done, individually ... If what I was heard to say or was reported to have said during the trial sounded like...
...Capitol Hill, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles warned that "all of Southeast Asia is today in great peril, and if Indo-China should be lost there would be a chain reaction throughout the Far East ..." Treasury Secretary George Humphrey spoke adamantly against any cuts in the program and, in the process, dashed hopes for a balanced budget: "I am distressed that we cannot balance the budget this year . . . the risks that would involve in our security would simply be too great . . ." Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, JCS Chairman Omar Bradley and MSA Director Harold Stassen echoed the Administration argument...