Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined task force of the U.S. Navy last week declared open war on the rest of the nation's military establishment, end specifically on the new boss of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. Beaten and routed in the guerrilla struggle to maintain the Navy's old premerger independence, a group of officers scuttled the last semblance of service unity and prepared for unconditional political war. The chosen battlefield: the floor of Congress. The first salvo was fired by Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman James E. Van Zandt, a naval reserve captain, a veteran of both World...
...face of the memo furnished to Van Zandt, the charges, strewn with rumor and hearsay, and preceded by such hedges as "It is said," stated more suspicions than solid facts. If they were to be believed, the Air Force, first line of the nation's defense, was in a sorry state: its professional officers (who decide what aircraft to buy) were guilty of either corruption or of the vastest stupidity. By Congressman Van Zandt's implications they were ready to risk the nation's security and their pilots' lives in second-rate airplanes...
...known that it welcomed a full airing of the charges, and said it would rather be asked about the B-36 than any plane it owns. If the charges proved without foundation, then an investigation into who had spread the charges, and why, was due. Either way, the nation and its military establishment were in for some nasty days...
...report, based on an annual survey made by the company, called attention to the fact that starting salaries the nation over are holding at last year's record levels, and that the demand for college trained employees is growing rather than shrinking...
Died. James Vincent Forrestal, 57, onetime Secretary of the Navy (1944-47) and the nation's first Secretary of Defense (1947-49); by jumping from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...