Word: civilianizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time a thoroughgoing professional and a global intellectual, a military and civilian thinker who, during off-duty hours on overseas tours, studied Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, even Chinese. During a South Pacific tour, his carousing comrades came upon him at night, studying by candlelight a book called Micronesian Languages, When he was an Air Force assistant attache in Moscow, he wrote some of the best air-intelligence reports about the Soviet Union that the U.S. had ever received. As a longtime Pentagon staff officer, he managed to steer clear of cliques and cabals, and win a reputation for sheer...
...aging, and a dismaying number of bright youngsters are getting out. Between 1953 and 1956 SAC lost 90,175 skilled technicians, mostly to industry, at a replacement and retraining cost of $1.7 billion; many of these experts have since returned to SAC as their companies' "tech-reps" (civilian technical representatives), and they do much the same as their old jobs at about the salary level of SAC Commanding General Power's $16,851 a year...
...their first winter of blizzards and long, lonely nights, 600 Americans and Canadians (98% of them civilian technicians who earn up to $13,800 a year) man the isolated DEW line stations, watching luminescent oscilloscopes in darkened rooms. Without the ability to intercept or even to defend themselves (an attack on them would in itself constitute a warning, and thus fulfill the DEW line's purpose), they have a single mission: to detect penetration of the radar fence by unidentified aircraft...
...interfere in purely military decisions. The suggestion that Zhukov was trying to establish personal dominance of the Soviet army was likely to find ready acceptance with Communist Party bureaucrats, ever fearful of a military coup. Khrushchev, having used the threat of Zhukov's military power to destroy his civilian rivals, was now appealing to the civilian majority of the Central Committee to help him destroy Zhukov...
Most of the planemakers will probably have to find some new financing. Boeing Airplane Co., which rolled out its first civilian 707 jet transport last week and has a $2.1 billion backlog of military orders, estimates that it will have to borrow between $150 million and $200 million to meet payrolls and other costs. But after all the rumbles of wholesale layoffs shutdown plants and delays in plane deliveries, Boeing President William McPherson Allen seemed satisfied with the new targets. He expected to escape ''precipitous'' job cutbacks; he also predicted that both the Air Force...