Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President pointed out that 500,000 steelworkers and 200,000 workers in allied industries were out of work, and steel shortages would soon cause a fast spread of layoffs in the rest of the economy (see BUSINESS). He did not mention another ominous fact, reported to him by the Pentagon: shortages of special steel had begun to slow down construction work on submarines and missile bases...
...this maze, lines of authority get tangled and jealousies flourish. Nobody in the Pentagon, from Defense Secretary Neil McElroy down, has been able to explain where Roy Johnson's bailiwick ends and Herb York's begins. York considers himself Johnson's boss; Johnson disagrees. Last year ARPA and the Air Force got into a prolonged squabble over whether or not U.S.A.F. would be stenciled on an Air Force rocket assigned to ARPA...
Missouri's Stuart Symington: "The Missouri Fury, a shortrange, antidefense missile. It is true that so far its launching site has been Capitol Hill in Washington, and that nose cones from the Missouri Fury have been recovered regularly at points no more distant than the Pentagon and the White House. Dr. H. S. Truman of Independence, sole architect of the remarkably successful Hot-Shot Harry missile of 1948, heads the small research and development team at work on the Missouri Fury. One desirable feature of the Fury is the fact that it is somewhat quieter than other models...
...days when the interservice fighting for dollars got bitter, McNeil, a reserve World War II rear admiral (fiscal affairs), was accused of having a dark influence over his bosses, of unfairly favoring the Navy over the other services. But over the years, Pentagon brass, as well as congressional committees, learned that he cut dispassionately wherever he thought he saw fat. And his best defense against any outcry was that he knew more about budgetary details than anybody else...
...Another Pentagon resignation in the making: Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy, who last May postponed his leave-taking after the death of Assistant Secretary Donald Quarles. McElroy, who spent much of his 27 months in office on far-ranging inspection tours, will make time to get just one more trip under his belt-to Alaska, Honolulu, the western Pacific and the Orient-before slipping back in late December to Procter & Gamble...