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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson made his power felt in smaller ways, too. In a kind of gigantic game of musical chairs, he started shifting half of the Pentagon's 25,000 antlike workers into new quarters. He wiped out 57 overlapping and outdated service boards and bureaus. He ordered all armed service celebrations combined into one Armed Forces Day. He ordered the overlapping medical services merged. With an eye to small irritations, he cut down on -the private use of official automobiles. And to end intra-service wrangling in press and radio, he issued a directive "consolidating" the press faculties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Master of the Pentagon | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...School has already accepted 525 of the 550 students it plans to admit from the crowd of 1276 aspirants. This 43 percent average shows that the Law, School is not so hard pressed as its smaller neighbor, the School of Public Administration, which plans to take only about 25 of the 150 people applying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Schools Will Admit 2028 Out of 8087 Applicants | 5/26/1949 | See Source »

...owls are still taking advantage of one of the Smithsonian's smaller towers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1949 | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...plants which made the oil that drove the dedication train will turn out about 400 gallons a day-at least ten times as much as has been produced in any of the 15-odd smaller pilot plants so far built by Government and industry. But it was still far short of the 10,000-gallon daily production of a full-sized commercial plant on the scale of those that powered Germany's Luftwaffe during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Synthetic | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...expenses at Harvard run to about $1200 each year. Other expenses, besides the big annual trip, include trips to smaller regional conferences of various sorts, printing of information, and mailing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Given $715 For Illinois Trip | 5/19/1949 | See Source »

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