Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the black days of Teapot Dome had such grave charges and innuendoes been sounded by a responsible member of the U.S. Congress. Yet newsmen everywhere handled the charges gingerly. They were aware of the degeneration of the interservice squabbles into an eye-gouging finish fight. In the Pentagon, the security curtain clanked down abruptly. Worried staff officers warned inquiring newsmen not even to discuss the matter over the telephone, for fear of wiretapping. A stream of other rumors flooded through Washington...
...husky C-54 transport nosed through the morning haze over Washington National Airport one day last week and coasted to a landing. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson helped crewmen push a big aluminum ramp up to the plane while the rest of the Pentagon's top brass gathered round. A smartly uniformed honor guard snapped to salute, four 105-mm. guns boomed a 17-gun salute. General Lucius D. Clay hopped out and looked about him with the fixed smile and nervous glance of a man who was surprised by all the fuss. After four controversial years in Germany...
...year), there were more salutes. Clay addressed both Houses of Congress, stood somberly and half-smiling as Representatives and Senators gave him standing ovations (his father, Alexander Stephen Clay was a U.S. Senator from 1897 to 1910). A few minutes later General Clay sat in a Pentagon press conference, firing answers at newsmen as fast as they could write them down. (Would Germany ally herself with Russia? ". . . Only if the Western powers [were] unwilling to accept Germany back into the community of nations." The future of East-West relations? "I don't think we should ever forget that this...
Hill is broken faster than a soda cracker by American "fascists" (who have presumably taken over the Pentagon), when he interferes with the plans of slinky Spy Sherwood, who is helping an important Nazi war criminal to escape to the U.S. zone. A German scientist points the picture's timely moral: "Two worlds have met on the Elbe's shores. Germany cannot just stay in between. The time to make a choice has come...
...official family. Johnson's choice was 58-year-old Curtis Ernest Calder, the $75,000-a-year board chairman of Manhattan's Electric Bond and Share Co. As soon as Calder could tidy up his affairs, probably within 60 days, he would move into the Pentagon. So said Louis Johnson...