Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Authorized construction of military and naval installations costing $500 million and including 7,500 homes for married Army, Navy and Air Force personnel costing an average $14,750 each. Until economizing Senator Paul Douglas went to work, the houses were to cost $16,500 each (not including land). He pointed out that FHA was getting thousands of houses built for $9,000 including land. He got the bill reduced...
Admiral William ("Spike") Blandy, a top candidate for Chief of Naval Operations until Admiral Forrest Sherman was tapped for the job last fall, retired from the Navy after 40 years of service, and took on a civilian job: president of the newborn Health Information Foundation, a nonprofit medical news and research service supported by the drug and medical supply industries...
More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he served as chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, whose job is to keep the Pentagon within hailing distance of atomic developments, became a consultant for the Joint Research and Development Board, military ancestor...
Recently the faculty voted to recommend through Captain Taber Bonney, professor of Naval Science, that the Navy revise its loyalty oath...
...imitating "Communist totalitarian policies and devices" in requiring NROTC students to sign a 'stool pigeon" loyalty certificate, it was learned last night. The letter was partially initiated by a Liberal Union appeal to the ADA for national action on the "informer clause" in the oath administered to the Harvard Naval Science students...