Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Energetic Dr. T. Keith Glennan, chief of the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration, made his way into the Pentagon office of Army Secretary Wilber Brucker last fortnight with a message: civilian-run NASA, operating under Congressional authority, intended to take over the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal, 2,100 scientists from its missile team, the Army-backed Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles and various other installations...
...General Donald Yates walked into a press conference, newsmen rose and applauded. In Hawthorne, Calif., at the Data Reduction Center of Ramo-Wooldridge's Space Technology Laboratories (the Air Force's top moon-probe contractor), Air Force officers and civilians whooped and pounded one another. In the Pentagon, top brass cheerfully poured out their delight in hourly pronouncements on Pioneer's progress...
...Quemoy if the Communists would just stop shooting. ¶Denied Chiang's statement that the U.S. had approved his Quemoy buildup, countered flatly that the U.S. "did not attempt to veto it"-but nonetheless had thought the move unwise (a military point seriously disputed by the Pentagon, which thought Chiang's buildup none too large to resist invasion...
...Fifty thousand people in the Pentagon and the State Department might come up with something if they put their heads to it," he added...
...Undelivered Challenge. Pentagon planners began to talk optimistically of "an eventual solution" to the problem of supplying Quemoy. In their optimism, they seemed to be forgetting that while a conventionally loaded LST can carry 1,300 tons of cargo, it can carry at most 17 LVTs-and each LVT has room for only 2^ tons of cargo. Cold fact was that daily deliveries of supplies to Quemoy last week ranged at best from 50 to 150 tons, but to survive in fighting trim, Que-moy's 150,000 soldiers and civilians need a minimum of almost 700 tons...