Word: neils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cutting pet congressional projects squarely on Congress. ¶ Pentagon Missile Adviser William M. Holaday will now have full power "to direct all activities in the Department of Defense relating to research, development, engineering, production and procurement of guided missiles," i.e., to crack down on interservice rivalries. ¶ Defense Secretary Neil McElroy said that within a month he would appoint a single manager for new outer-space and anti-missile missilery programs...
...missiles, be given full authority to crack down on what Ike called "alleged interservice rivalries" that might hinder missile development. No more than Killian will Holaday be a missile czar. Rather, he will be a Pentagon straw boss for missiles, working for the President through Killian and Defense Secretary Neil McElroy...
...list of those present was almost a Washington Who's Who. It included Brig. General Robert Cutler '16, Special Assistant to the President and toastmaster for the occasion; C. Douglas Dillon '31, Undersecretary of State and chairman of the Program; Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy '25; Percival F. Brundage '14, Director, Bureau of the Budget; and many others...
...When the $38 billion figure was hit upon, it was not by any manner or means a sacrosanct figure," said the President at his weekly press conference. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy started defense spending on the way up one day last week by restoring $170 million lopped off the current research and development budget by Charlie Wilson; he also authorized the Air Force to lift its emergency ceilings on monthly payments to aircraft companies (see BUSINESS). In view of the higher defense spending, said the President, it would require "serious retardations elsewhere" in the budget to hold the overall...
With a sigh of relief, the U.S. aircraft industry learned last week that the Defense Department would pay its bills after all. To 28 major airframe and missile contractors, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent a telegram rescinding the harsh 25% reduction in progress payment on contracts that recently threw manufacturers into a tail spin (TIME, Oct. 28). In its place, the Defense Department announced a new, less rigid series of payment "targets," under which the planemakers would get at least 80%, and possibly 90%, of their costs for work in progress...