Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Secretary cannot abolish services, but the secretaries of Army, Navy and Air Force are no longer in the chain of operational command. The Defense Secretary now has explicit authority to assign weapons to services as he sees fit, a powerful weapon in itself for putting an end to service rivalries...
...second quarter did indeed see the end of the downturn, and by last week signs of upturn were visible (see BUSINESS) even through grey-colored glasses. With his predictions and counsel proved sound, Gabriel Hauge, 44, made a decision to return to private life. His new job: finance committee chairman of New York's Manufacturers Trust Co., fourth largest U.S. bank (after California's Bank of America, New York's Chase Manhattan and First National City...
...week's end four of the committee's tongue-tied witnesses had resigned their posts in locals of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union, and more were expected to follow. This modestly encouraging result by no means satisfied Arkansas' John McClellan, committee chairman. "The testimony," he said, "clearly established that a number of local unions in the Chicago area were controlled by gangsters." The situation, he added, "cries out for remedial action, which is beyond the power of this committee. The committee trusts that responsible governmental agencies, on both the federal and state level...
Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. At week's end Nikita Khrushchev played his trump, proposed an emergency big-name conference in Geneva* this week on the Middle East, to include himself, President Eisenhower, Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, India's Nehru and U.N. Dag Hammarskjold. Surprisingly missing from his invitation list: Mao and Nasser. Every word in the Soviet strong man's message, which bore the sound of his own bluff rhetoric rather than Foreign Ministry jargon, conveyed a sense of urgency: "The guns are already beginning to shoot . . . this awesome moment in history...
...Geneva hotelkeepers, at the peak of the summer rush and with hotels filled, said such a meeting would be impossible before the end of the month...