Word: materiel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar business world, the out standing example is General Lucius DuBignon Clay, the compact (5 ft. 9 in., 170 tbs.), hard-driving chairman and chief executive of Continental Can Co. West Pointer ('18) Clay, 62, carried out one of the biggest logistical jobs in history as director of materiel in the Army Service Forces in World War II. After war's end, as commander in chief of U.S. forces in Europe and Military Governor of the U.S. Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since...
...forces are in Algeria." Furthermore, NATO's 30 reserve divisions, theoretically ready 30 days after the start of hostilities, do not for all practical purposes exist at all. The Dutch and Belgians now draft soldiers for an inadequate twelve-month period and are understrength besides; Britain's materiel stocks on the Continent are far below the levels recommended by NATO...
MILITARY PROCUREMENT will be drastically changed after Jan. 1. The Army will buy all general supplies for the three military services, and the Navy will purchase all industrial materiel...
...Kelly Field, Texas. Stirred by Charles Lindbergh's historic flight to Paris in 1927, many promising young men flocked to Kelly to win their wings. Among the class of 1929 graduates: Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay; General Samuel E. Anderson, chief of the Air Materiel Command; retired Brigadier General La Verne (''Blondie") Saunders, a hero of World War II; Major General Haydon L. Boatner, the Army's Provost Marshal General; Lieut. General Roscoe Wilson, Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff; the late Major General Robert F. Travis; Lieut. General Francis ("Butch") Griswold, vice...
...foreign-aid time, there are few sharper antagonists in the House than Louisiana Democrat Otto Passman and Minnesota Republican Walter Judd-Passman passionately against, Judd dourly for. Louisiana's Passman, 59, onetime refrigerator distributor and World War II Navy materiel and procurement officer, seven-term Congressman and Appropriations Committee axman, is an acknowledged expert who knows how to find every foreign-aid dollar in every foreign-aid pipeline and how to take maximum debating advantage thereof. Minnesota's Dr. Judd. 60, onetime medical missionary in China, is a nine-term Congressman and Foreign Affairs Committee veteran who just...