Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sent his annual report to Congress on U.S. participation in the U.N., credited the world organization with "solid achievements" during 1957. After Russia charged that the U.S. was urging Turkey to attack Syria, wrote the President, the U.N. Assembly's open discussion "demonstrated to the world that Syria and the Soviet Union had manufactured the 'crisis' as a propaganda maneuver against the West...
...main walls, it seems, rest not on solid foundations, but on shifting dirt. Its timbers are rotting, the Cabinet room is hazardous, some floors are so weak that the number of guests invited to receptions have had to be cut. What No. 10 needs, said the White Paper, is nothing less than a complete "structural overhaul" at a cost of at least ?400,000 ($1,120,000). Once again sensible men could say that the most economical course would be to tear the whole place down. But as usual, even sensible men will agree in the end that London would...
...erstwhile friend, General Rafael Trujillo Jr., nonflying chief of the Dominican Republic's air force and army, whooped it up in Los Angeles Harbor with an all-night party or two aboard his one-gunned warship Angelita, fluff-tressed Cinemacaroon Kim Novak gazed dazzle-eyed at a solid, if less spectacular catch: Cancer Researcher Ernest L. Wynder, M.D. (TIME, May 5), who escorted Kim on a tour of Manhattan night life...
...gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...
With Korea, the company zoomed. At its Sacramento plant, everything doubled; the cafeteria seating 450 workers was doubled soon after the original building was occupied; so was the solid-fuel engineering building. Entire new divisions were formed, and flourished. Example: Aerojet's Architect-Engineering Division, formed in 1947 to serve specialized needs, was called upon to serve as structural engineer for the rocket test station at Edwards Air Force Base on a $2,000,000 contract. It went on to a similar job at the Navy's missile test station at Point Mugu, Calif., the Army...