Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weapons system has been more heavily guarded than the MOLE (Molecular Orbiting Low-Level Explorer). First hint of its existence came last spring when a Washington-datelined story in Electronic News reported that the Pentagon "is becoming heavily committed" to a radically new weapons system, added: "The MOLE should put an end to war. No location on earth will be secure from the MOLE." Later stories reported that 1) a special new agency (Subterranean Exploration Agency-SEA > had been set up to handle the new weapon and 2) the prime contract had been awarded to Accuracy Inc. of Waltham, Mass...
...electrical measuring devices (known in the trade as pots) that are used in electronic systems. Such firms have an advertising problem. Since their products are used chiefly in highly classified projects, they can do little public boasting. Since their customers are only a handful of procurement officers in the Pentagon or a few specialized firms, money spent on ordinary advertising is largely wasted. So Monahan seized on the MOLE as a means of spreading the name of Accuracy Inc. throughout the electronics industry. "Oddly enough," he says, "people believed it. It has never ceased to amaze us that people would...
VANISHING RAIL COACHES may be stockpiled by worried Pentagon, which needs at least 1,047 for troop transport in case of war. With railroads scrapping passenger cars (present total: 10,262) three times faster than they buy new ones, Pentagon hopes to lease old coaches, keep them on sidings for emergency...
After a 26-month tour of duty in the Pentagon and with the far-ranging U.S. armed forces, TIME'S Military Correspondent Edwin Rees flew into Moscow to glean what he could about the armed forces matched against the U.S.-the army, navy, air and missile forces of the U.S.S.R. His report...
Last week an Eisenhower began his third* tour of duty at the White House. Moving on from an assignment at the Pentagon, Major John Eisenhower became assistant to Brigadier General Andrew J. Goodpaster, the President's staff secretary...