Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nickerson document was a brief called "Considerations on the Wilson Memorandum," in which he took issue with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson's ruling last fall (TIME, Dec. 10) that the Air Force and not the Army was to use land-based missiles with ranges beyond 200 miles...
...persuasive spokesman for the Navy's hopes and ambitions in the jet-missile age and an ardent defender of its more venturesome officers. But Thomas, World War I naval aviator, was no Navy zealot. He paid proper heed to his civilian bosses, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and President Eisenhower, was equally forceful in passing the civilian word back to the Navy. Result: Charlie Thomas ably kept the Navy on course as it steamed at flank speed into the heady age of nuclear submarines, larger carriers, jet planes and missiles, kept it clear of the shoals of congressional troubles, politics...
...Wall Street, Boeing Airplane Co. last week supplied a sad example of how jittery the stock market is these days, especially in reaction to offhand remarks of Administration officials. At a press conference, Secretary of Defense Wilson vaguely remarked that production of the B-52 intercontinental bomber might soon "be up for reconsideration," depending on the performance of Convair's newer, supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS...
Black & White. Schlesinger lays down a line that many historians will find hard to toe: business during the early years of the 20th century pretty much ran the U.S. Under Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson, the common man had found champions whose influence petered out after World War I. Prosperity left the liberals crying in the wilderness, and businessmen plundered and ruined the economic system. The big boys were so greedy that they not only killed the goose that laid the golden egg but ate it without offering the ordinary man so much as a bone. The country...
Coach Floyd Wilson, who has brought Harvard basketball from the bottom up in three years as varsity coach, will go with the same techniques and team that have succeeded so well...