Word: subs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McNeil's charts showed bewildering mazes of bureaus and sub-bureaus through which procurement orders had to pass. Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper studied the charts, announced that by his count an ammunition order "would go through 42 different departments and almost 200 operations" before contracts were actually placed. Senator Byrd asked McNeil how far the order would travel in the process. Said McNeil: "The speedometer reading on that is 10,000 miles, I am told...
...purpose of this hearing, Velde, who is chairman of the committee, created a special sub-committee under New York Republican Bernard Kearney...
...first stage that interests Lindsley, as psychologist, because of its obvious strategic importance with respect to increased anxiety and fear of combat personnel following even sub-lethal doses of radiation. "The results obtained from these experiments with dogs are based on laws of animal behavior learned through the study of pigeons," says Lindsley. "Most probably a human's reaction to irradiation would be the same as a dog's--for it's a bigger phylogenetic jump from the pigeon to the dog than from the dog to man." Also significant is the fact that many people irradiated in the treatment...
...career men who drew up the $45.4 billion military budget which Wilson inherited from Harry Truman. Accordingly, they keep a sharp eye on Wilson's efforts to cut the Truman budget by $4.3 billion. The real bosses of the Pentagon regard every cut in their sub-budgets as a reflection on their original estimates...
Senator Jenner's Internal Security Sub-Committee is supposed to be gathering information for possible Congressional legislation. Yet, apparently in Jenner's mind lies the idea that he is judging individuals and passing a verdict for the American people. During yesterday's hearing the senator referred to his questioning as "judicial process," and treated his witnesses as defendants. The irony of all this is that Jenner is, in fact, deciding the fates of many of his witnesses, by merely calling them to his hearings...