Word: command
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel production down to 70% of capacity, automobile production down in the light of falling sales (see BUSINESS). Big Labor was getting set to press new wage demands in next year's collective bargaining. And at the Pentagon the mess in missilery and the mis-organization of command, as shown up by the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee hearings, was such as to raise serious questions as to whether Commander in Chief Dwight D. Eisenhower had done his homework as a military administrator...
...Missile Director Holaday's testimony accurately reflects the kind of top management the U.S. missile program has been getting, the Senate Subcommittee clearly has its work cut out for it. And the high civilian command in the Pentagon is likely to be hopping busily from spot to hot spot...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff is a sort of command-by-committee system (Gavin later emphasized that he was not talking about the individual competence of the present chiefs) and is not enough. Said Jim Gavin: "He [McElroy] needs more advice than the Joint Chiefs of Staff give him. I think really what is needed now is a competent military staff of senior military people working directly for the Secretary of Defense. I would have them take over the functions of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I would have the military staff organized to handle operations, plans, intelligence, and in fact...
...Lalla Nuzha, 17, and little Lalla Amina, 4-from Rabat, to share with them the last six days of his whirlwind visit. He sped on to San Francisco for two days, then hopped to Omaha, where he arrived in freezing weather, later was escorted all around the Strategic Air Command's headquarters, including a spelunking expedition through its vast underground communications center. Remarking that by now he was "awfully tired," Mohammed canceled a slated trip to Niagara Falls. At week's end, with "a little extra rest" to buoy him up for the rest of his schedule...
...campaign in which several of his papers had gone counter to Gannett's publicly expressed views, F.E.G., as he was called, sighed to Vice President (now President) Paul Miller: "You know, Paul, sometimes I don't know about this autonomy." Tolerant Teetotaler Gannett's only inviolate command: his papers must never accept liquor...