Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force, if necessary, to uphold the allies' right to supply their military outposts in Berlin (the West expects no interference with the flow of civilian goods to West Berlin). "We are resolved," said Dulles, "that our position in and access to West Berlin shall be preserved. We are in general agreement as to the procedures we shall follow if physical means are invoked to interfere with our rights...
...FASTEST CIVILIAN JETLINER, the Convair 880, with a rated speed of 615 m.p.h., made its maiden flight over California, will go into airline service in the spring...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2--Civilian space chief T. Keith Glennan said today it may be three years or more before the United states can match Russia in rocket engine power...
...spectacled Scientist Northrup is an avid detective-story reader but hardly a storybook detective himself. A onetime Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher, he joined the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1940, was in Honolulu Dec. 7, 1941, when the Japanese began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. Dodging flak showers, Civilian Northrup dashed to the burning Navy Yard, helped put out submarine-detection devices from a patrol boat in pitching seas. In 1948, when Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss persuaded the Administration to establish an atomic-detection unit, selfless Scientist Northrup was borrowed by the Air Force, named technical director of something...
...Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization ruled that the U.S. must accept B.L.H.'s lowest domestic bid of $1,757,210 for two hydraulic turbines for the Greers Ferry Dam in Arkansas, chuck out the much lower bid of $1,450,700 by Britain's English Electric Co.. Ltd. Hearing the news, the British Foreign Office loudly protested, complained that it had obviously been "a waste of time" for English Electric to bid on the job in the first place. The British press joined in with an attack on U.S. trade policies...