Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were forming in opposition to his Defense Department reorganization plan, designed to simplify the ever-lengthening lines of the U.S. military webwork and give new powers to the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff. Already it was clear that the principal foe was the U.S. Navy, its civilian allies, and its longtime friends on Capitol Hill...
...couldn't find a single military man in modern history, not to say American history, but in modern history, except in certain of the Latin American countries. Hitler and Mussolini were not soldiers; and Bismarck, who was almost a dictator until Wilhelm II came along-he was a civilian. So they gave up that argument, and now they are talking about a civilian czar. I don't see any sense...
...request for new legislation, the President placed responsibility for the U.S.'s new space-exploration program (TIME. April 7) on a new entity to be called the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, headed by a civilian named by the President and confirmed by the Senate. If approved by Congress, the new agency would form around the tried and tested nucleus of the 43-year-old National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, would operate much like the Atomic Energy Commission, for the benefit of both civilian and military customers. The Defense Department's new Advanced Research Projects Agency would continue...
...civilian setting," the President summed up, "will emphasize the concern of our nation that outer space be devoted to peaceful and scientific purposes...
...that can be considered safe, Commander Dobbins was sure that atomic sub crews-within a few yards of the reactor for 24 hours a day-so far have been exposed to only a fraction of permissible totals. When industry goes into full-scale production and operation of reactors for civilian power needs, it will have an invaluable body of data collected from the first men to go under the sea in atomic vessels...