Word: civilianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 15--Secretary of Defense McElroy faced strong senatorial pressures today to replace missiles direct to William M. Holaday and shake up the top civilian command of the missiles program...
Under the heading "A Baby Is Born," there is an excellent description of the Shippingport reactor in which, however, the following expression occurs: "The nation's sluggish atomic energy program will show its first practical results." Four atomic power plants have been completed this year and are delivering civilian power; the Shippingport plant will be No. 5. One of these plants has been financed entirely by private capital, and seven other full-scale plants likewise are scheduled to be built by private capital without any direct Government financial contribution. Fifteen other atomic power plants, for civilian use, are presently...
...committee of eight top Administration civilian officials flashed the production green light for both the Air Force's Thor and its intermediate-range (1,500 mi.) Army rival Jupiter, temporarily resolving the two missiles' nose-and-nose race for survival. Both IRBMs have flown successfully three times, and both have flopped several times. Only last week a Jupiter rocketed away promisingly from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, was exploded a few minutes later-"because of technical difficulties," said the Army's inscrutable announcement. As Defense Secretary Neil McElroy admitted, neither Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Thor...
...from holding public office-which effectively barred Senaga from seeking reelection. When the assemblymen gathered at Naha's city hall and voted the mayor out of office by a 16-to-10 vote, hundreds of Okinawans stood outside and jeered at them: "Are you Okinawans or prostitutes?" U.S. civilian administrators privately criticized Moore's action as another example of what they regard as highhanded military practices...
...Advance Research Projects Agency will be headed by a civilian, still to be selected. It will be an actual operating military agency, to put into effect some of the broad guidelines suggested by the newly established office of special assistant to the President for science and technology, headed by James R. Killian...