Word: pentagonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made Sam Rayburn's new wrinkle newsworthy was that the diplomas were lettered by six Army draftsmen, working in the Pentagon building behind a door marked SECRET. Hastily Sam Rayburn announced that he was footing the bill ($339.61); indignantly he denied that he was mending political fences. He just thought it a good year, he said, to greet high-school students...
...Department's mammoth Pentagon Building in Washington, the capital's most fabulous new sight, has eight cafeterias and two dining rooms which serve 40,000 meals a day. One day last winter ambulances clanged up, carted away 50 Pentagon diners griped by contaminated salad dressing. The Pentagon hastily changed cafeteria managers; the Welfare and Recreational Association, which runs the cafeterias in most of Washington's government buildings, took charge...
Last week, the Welfare and Recreational Association notwithstanding, ambulances rushed to the Pentagon once again...
...Department. Upwards of 1,000 trucks and bulldozers were on the job. From its start in September until its completion in the spring, the landscaping project will have employed an average of 1,000 men each day. The number of man-hours necessary to beautify the land around the Pentagon was estimated unofficially...
...these goings-on there was at least one likely explanation. The Pentagon landscaping sired by Lieut. General Brehon