Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...herself to reveal the brief, two-piece fur suit. Next day, orders came by way of Tokyo for Terry to leave Korea on the first plane out of Seoul. Later Terry got permission to stay, provided she stuck to the script and skipped the goose pimples. Sighed the U.S.O. unit manager: "Everything is all right now, since she is not doing a strip...
...nits and lice" also came in for attention. By redesigning a foot-powder can, the Army cut unit costs from 16? to a nickel for a total saving of $275,000. Wilson and Kyes found that the military carried in inventory no fewer than 5,000 different types of electronic tubes and 800 categories of screw drivers; on their orders, tube types were cut to 192, and screw drivers...
Maas, an authority on the administrative processes of government and the conservation of natural resources, has been associated with various governmental conservation agencies. He was the director of a conservation survey unit for both the Massachusetts and Connecticut "Little Hoover" Commissions...
...Inheritance. When he took office last January, Eisenhower inherited the Truman defense budget. Like previous Truman budgets, it was not shaped by the White House, or by the Secretary of Defense, or even by the Joint Chiefs of Staff acting as a unit. It was a combination of the requirements and goals of individual services-Army, Navy, Air Force-each trying to get as much money as it could. Nobody judged these claims in the light of an overall, supra-service plan based on the total military, political and economic interest of the U.S. Insofar as there was any standard...
Actually, the P.U.D.s had already drawn up some plans for similar partnership power projects. At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...