Word: pentagon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next month, 58-year-old Admiral Denfeld added, he would advise the Pentagon whether he chose to retire (after 41 years in a Navy uniform) or stay on active duty, "in any assignment ... in which the handicaps imposed by recent events will not be present...
...Pound. The rest of Washington apparently agreed. While the President closeted himself in the White House for a conference with State Department officials on the Far East, the Shah was whirled off through a busy schedule of sightseeing, wreath-laying and conferences at Mount Vernon, Annapolis and the Pentagon, a formal dinner with Secretary of Slate Dean Acheson. At a luncheon given by the Overseas Writers, the Shah, who learned English in school in Switzerland, struck just the right note by announcing: "You are all, I am told, what is called 'working' newspapermen. I work...
Three such "Model T" air bursts, said the AEC, would tear the guts out of Washington. A perfect three-bomb pattern would pinpoint the Capitol, the downtown-White House district and the brass-heavy Pentagon across the Potomac...
...lives in Philadelphia, slim, silver-mustached John McShain, 50, has built so many of Washington's public buildings that he has trouble keeping count. Among them: Jefferson Memorial, the new State Department Building, the National Airport terminal and he was the biggest prime contractor of the mammoth Pentagon...
...builder really is"). At night he went back to the office to study bookkeeping and estimating. In 1930 he got his first chance-the Philadelphia Board of Education's $2,100,000 Administration Building. "It looked a lot bigger to me," says McShain, "than the $83 million Pentagon years later...