Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal for reform must be based on what the Pentagon has gradually learned about its manpower supply, McNamara insisted. He divided the 1.8 million men who reach eligibility for service each year into three parts...
...Pentagon's first consideration is selecting "the one third that we require from the two-thirds that we consider fit for service." But what to do with the two-thirds that remain is a problem that has been ignored too long, he said...
...TIME'S discourse on the growing popularity of vodka [Oct. 14] reminds me of the Air Force general who admonished his Martini-drinking Pentagon staff to lay off the stuff. "Drink whisky at lunchtime," he told them. "I'd rather have people know you're drunk than think you're stupid...
...effects are even more pronounced in aluminum, because this is a lightweight war; the Pentagon is using proportionately much more aluminum than in Korea. Washington has ordered aluminum manufacturers to "set aside" 13% of their production for defense use. The largest producer, Alcoa, estimates that defense orders will jump from 10% of the industry's total output last year to 20% this year. At Government request, Alcoa is building an additional plant at Rockdale, Texas, and has its big extrusion presses at Lafayette, Ind., working round the clock on defense items. Civilian customers have to wait as long...
...uniforms; the industry submitted bids for only half the total. Many textile men hesitate to compete for Government business, prefer selling to their old, reliable civilian customers, who are less likely to cut back orders without notice and are often willing to pay more than the Pentagon. To buck such peace profiteering, the Government has issued hundreds of thousands of "rated orders," which force manufacturers to sell to the armed services-at the Pentagon's price...