Word: wilber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special ceremony in the Pentagon's inner courtyard one day last week, Army Secretary Wilber Brucker bestowed the largest cash reward ever made by the Army for an employee suggestion: a $10,000 joint award to Stanislaus Danko. 41, and Moe Abramson, 45, career employees at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N.J. Their idea: an automation process that punches holes in regular printed or etched electronic circuits, drops the leads of components (resistors, tubes) through the holes, dips the leads in a solder bath, soldering all connections in one operation. The Government made the system available...
...soldier to appease Japanese public opinion." Girard's defense attorney, who was recommended for the job by the Hearst New York Journal-American, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington to have Girard brought back to the U.S., announced plans to subpoena Dulles, Wilson and Army Secretary Wilber Brucker. The counterblasts were soon rolling in from all over Asia, where the Dulles-Wilson ruling had been hailed as a declaration that the U.S. was not a lordly, imperial-minded power. Amid the U.S. uproar, this new Asian good will, said the Times of Indonesia, was now "considerably nullified...
...tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest to the globe-girdling ships that will use the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Said Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker: "The final assault is being begun upon the barriers to the free flow of waterborne trade among the ports of the Great Lakes and those of the seven seas...
...whopping 25%. President Eisenhower wrote the House Appropriations Committee expressing "deep concern" about proposed cuts in funds for the U.S. Information Agency. Result: the committee cut USIA by $37.9 million, or 26%. Hardly pausing for breath, it knocked $47.3 million, or 21%, from State Department budget requests. Army Secretary Wilber Brucker invited a group of Congressmen to witness at Army expense a military demonstration at Fort Knox, Ky. Brucker also passed the word that the affair would be held the same weekend as the nearby Kentucky Derby. Result: Brucker hastily canceled the invitation after a budget-cutting howl that could...
...took Pearson's copy of the Nickerson memorandum to the Pentagon to see if he could stir up an Air Force rebuttal. But the Air Force refused to rise to the bait, and notified the Army; the Army ordered the Pearson copy confiscated. Then Secretary of the Army Wilber Brucker began padding around Capitol Hill in person picking up other copies from Alabama Congressmen. Back at Redstone, Army MPs burst into Nickerson's ante-bellum (1817) home, searched it from attic to basement, refused to let anybody in or out for 24 hours, and the Nickerson case...