Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three wars fought conspicuously at Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Lô and Heartbreak Ridge, will be deactivated, replaced on garrison duty in Alaska by one of the Army's smaller, streamlined new battle groups. ¶ The Army announced that 18 antiaircraft artillery battalions will be closed out, 15,000 civilian employees dropped, 16 depots, arsenals or other service facilities shut down. Among the casualties: Murphy Army Hospital in Waltham, Mass., which the Army has been trying to close (against congressional pressure) for eight years because it has five staffers for every patient, compared to the accepted...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's military advisers, seems to welcome the formula that will let it return the country to civilian control. Brigadier General Rafael Navas Pardo, the most militaristic of the junta's generals, has bluntly told all company commanders and military state governors that under no circumstances would the junta continue in office after August 1958, the date set for the inauguration of a civilian President...
...manufacturers of vaccine against Asian influenza did better than they had expected: last week, well ahead of schedule, two companies turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations) allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's National Drug Co. was ready with 260,000 straight anti-Asian shots, plus 60,000 shots of polyvalent vaccine, compounded for use against three types of flu recently current, including the Asian. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set aside half for the armed forces (which will do their...
...suffering a staggering (400,000) housing shortage. The current price of land along the famed Ginza is $4,160 for four square yards. The prewar regulation limiting the number of nightclubs has long since been forgotten. Tokyo now has 35,000 bars, 2,000 brothels and 73,000 foreign civilian residents (including 10,000 Americans...
...plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...