Guinness has defined âlargest manufacturerâ as the company which has delivered the most number of offshore rigs in a year. The official record was awarded by Guinness after it completed a thorough assessment of supporting documentation provided by Keppel FELS. 21 rigs in one year
(CNN) -- It took decades to fully integrate the U.S. military, but there is general agreement that what President Harry Truman did 50 years ago this weekend helped ignite the country's civil rights movement and put its largest armed service, the Army, in the forefront of race relations.
This Day in Truman History. July 26, 1948. President Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 Desegregating the Military. President Truman had been examining the issue of segregation in the armed forces since at least 1947, when he appointed the President's Committee on Civil Rights. By January 1948, internal White House memos indicated that the President was determined to end military segregation by executive order.