Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present problem of unifying the services dates from the National Security Act of 1947 which set them up "... under civilian control ... not for merger, but for integration into an efficient team." The act was a compromise affair, reflecting the Navy's old fear of having the other services gang up against it, and the Air Force's equally strong desire to get out from under Army control. The Army wanted to make sure it would get sufficient direct air support, and the Navy plugged for carrier task-forces as our main striking weapon. After the long fight, the office...
...First Textor fired Foreign Editor Hans Lehmann for pro-Nazi leanings, though Textor had refused to approve Lehmann's dismissal for the same reason only three months ago. When twelve other German staffers resigned in protest, Textor named Bruce Buttles, an ex-Christian Science Monitor reporter and a civilian employee of the Army, as Zeitung publisher...
...reported on the ten-year-old VD-control program. Said he: "We're no longer fighting a defensive battle . . . We have been able to take the offensive." Deaths from syphilis dropped from about 21,000 in 1938 to 13,000 in 1948, the number of civilian cases reported from...
...Corp., once the biggest U.S. aircraft company, a new war began when peace came. It seemed to be a losing battle from the start. With 16 of its 19 plants shut down, Curtiss-Wright began losing out on orders from the Air Force. It also got little business from civilian customers. It still had $100 million in cash, but President Guy W. Vaughan was saving it for a rainy...
...every civilian sent by the U.S. Government to remote World War II assignments came back the worse for life in backwoods or jungle. Take the hero of Author Davidson's novel, William Harmon. He is a successful lawyer, with a charming wife and two soundly precocious children; he seems to have everything he could reasonably want. He is intelligent, sensitive, attractive to women; he loves his wife. Yet suddenly there occurs what Mrs. Harmon calls, with deadly chivalry, "the trouble." Harmon's humiliation, handled with tact and delicacy by everyone, including Author Davidson, is that he has become...