Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fuels of the space and atom age get more powerful, they also get harder to handle. Last week General Bernard Schriever, new chief of the Air Forces Research and Development Command, announced that liquid hydrogen, until recently hardly more than a laboratory curiosity, is being produced in considerable quantities as a rocket fuel. Liquid hydrogen is tricky stuff; it boils at minus 423° F., only about 37° above absolute zero. If it is not stored in elaborately insulated containers, it quickly turns to hydrogen gas, and a small amount of the gas makes a dangerous explosive mixture with...
...Peabody chose its greatest director, Frederick Ward Putnam, who was to remain in command until 1909, and, in the following year, it moved into the first installment of its present home on Divinity Avenue. From the very beginning, the Peabody collection had been poorly displayed because of insufficient financial endowment. As he soon found out, Putnam had to raise funds unendingly to alleviate this grave situation. In fact, the endowment of Peabody was so small that it could barely meet the necessary expenses of administration...
...with red tape and interservice tensions in his joint command, four-star Air Force General Earle E. (for Everard) Partridge drew up plans months ago for reorganizing NORAD, the U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command. His principal complaint: he did not have enough authority over assignment of NORAD's Army, Navy and Air Force officers and materiel (TIME, May 19, 1958). But nothing much ever happened about West Pointer Partridge's proposals. Fortnight ago, the Pentagon announced that able "Pat" Partridge, 58, was retiring from the Air Force, effective July 31, after 41 years of service...
Died. Alfred Howard Fuller, 46, president of the Fuller Brush Co., son of the founder (who is now chairman of the board); in an auto accident that also killed his wife; near Hawthorne, Nevada. At 30, Fuller took command of the company's 108 branches and 6,500 dealers, introduced the Fuller Brush Woman to sell soaps and cosmetics...
...Armstrong commanded the artillery battery which fired the first atomic round. At the Nevada proving grounds, he had men from the Artillery School and numerous civilian scientists under his command...