Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...said Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson, "are the man on the spot-the man to whom the American people look for missiles." The man on the spot was Pentagon's Guided Missiles Director William M. Holaday-and after his bumbling and uninformed testimony before Johnson's Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee last week, both Holaday and the Defense Department's direction of the missile program were on the hottest spot ever...
First of all, Lyndon Johnson was concerned whether Holaday had "the facilities that truly make you a director in charge of missiles or whether you just have the title." Asked to define his duties, Holaday said: "I would act more like a vice president of a corporation." Then, after a vague explanation of what a corporation vice president might do, Holaday asked hopefully: "Does that help?" Replied Subcommittee Counsel Edwin Weisl bleakly...
Fiction Factories. This is true even of the products of the "mass" publishers (Whitman, Simon & Schuster, Grosset & Dunlap), whose millions of books are pushed through supermarkets, chain stores, drugstores, Howard Johnson restaurants, newsstands, toy stores and mail-order houses. Their authors are either long dead (and their work, therefore, in the public domain) or journeyman writers, many of them organized in large talent pools. Ideas are assigned, stories written and rewritten by teams of writers and editors, often recalling the Hollywood assembly lines...
...Johnson broke the game wide open in the final period, as he tallied his second goal of the game at 6:45, and his third...