Word: donalds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midweek the President motored back to the capital for a two-day round of talks. At the White House he saw Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and Deputy Secretary Donald Quarles, reached with them a "tentative final figure" for defense next year. Next day he convened his first full Cabinet meeting in four weeks, led a general discussion on the State of the Union message, which each Cabinet member had received for review a day earlier. Leaving Vice President Nixon in charge of the meeting, the President went down the hall to witness the swearing-in of his new Civil...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles's office in the Pentagon last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear...
...Boston's WCRB, which pioneered in stereophonic sound, is offering a record 128 hours of concert music a week, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s four new "FM only" outlets are making a pitch to advertisers who prefer "a rifle shot to a shotgun blast." Says Westinghouse President Donald McGannon: "FM is at last on the march, and that day may not be too far distant when our country will have three separate major media for broadcast entertainment and advertising: TV, AM radio and FM radio...
...Australia, reported Health Minister Donald A. Cameron, the polio vaccination program has been a huge success: 90% of all children under 15 have had some vaccine (made in Australia to the Salk formula) and half have had a full three-shot course. Cases in 1957 numbered only 138, compared with an average of 1,600 in the twelve previous years...
Still stronger protests came from Venezuela and Canada, which export oil to the U.S. Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming angrily declared: "The Canadian government cannot accept the view that there is any justification for U.S. limitations on oil coming from Canada on either economic or defense grounds...