Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S. head straight past missile development into the no man's land of space-war thinking; e.g., develop a sophisticated satellite for reconnaissance as well as an anti-satellite weapon. Then, rising beyond his passionate service loyalties, Jim Gavin pointed out the weaknesses of the present Joint Chiefs of Staff establishment, said that U.S. defenses would never be satisfactory without some sort of general staff system...
...eleven mess attendants attached to his office (all security-cleared because they are in a position to overhear top-secret conversations). Then McElroy began the breakneck round of business that has not since let up: he held a brief press conference, discussed the fiscal 1959 defense budget with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nate Twining, was briefed by Defense Department Comptroller Wilfred McNeil on the National Security Council meeting scheduled for the next morning...
...This joint enterprise, along with Neil McElroy's real professional abilities, worked spectacularly. McElroy was named Procter & Gamble advertising and promotion manager in 1940, a director and vice president in charge of advertising in 1943, general manager in 1946 and president (at $285,000 a year...
...freeze on overtime work-an economy measure-in the ballistic missile program. He restored $170 million for research and development, released $400 million, mostly for Air Force procurement (another $300 million is to be released in the second half of fiscal 1958). It seemed unbelievable to McElroy that the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian secretaries were so split that the U.S. has no overall war plan under which service roles and missions are definitely parceled out. He made it perfectly clear that they had better get together or some changes would be made...
...Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...