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Big Notions. Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal last week told Congress that the long-range oil picture was also dark. The U.S., he said, was using up its oil four times as fast as it was finding it. Said Forrestal: if the nation went to war tomorrow, it would...
Small Beginnings. Long before Krug or Forrestal, the oil industry had seen the revolution on the way and started to get ready. The Texas Co. has a 38% interest in Carthage Hydrogl, Inc., is now building a $20 million plant at Brownsville, Tex. to produce synthetic gasoline and oil daily...
The Cost of Defense. It was scarcely the commissioners' job to settle that kind of technical debate. They had a right to expect that the JCS would have settled the fight among themselves and come up with carefully integrated plans. It was apparent that real unification had not yet...
It had taken a lot of doing. Neither President Harry Truman nor the new Air Force had forgiven or forgotten Radford's angry last-ditch opposition to unification of the armed services, which he carried on even after the Navy had agreed to the merger. Defense Secretary Forrestal and...
James V. Forrestal, Secretary of Defense, erased himself from Democratic dopesters' tickets. He took back publicly what he had privately told some friends-that he would be glad to be Harry Truman's vice-presidential candidate (TIME, Aug. 25). Said Forrestal: "I've never taken myself seriously...