Whole Nine Yards update(1964)? (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> This is a great find. The Tucson Daily Citizen just became
> available, and =20 I'd found "chimichangas" from 1969. I'd
> hoped to do better.
> ...
> The NewspaperArchive search engine no longer pulls up the
> "whole nine  yards= "=20 from 1969 (in a Florida newspaper).
> Google News Archives is worse,  jumping=20 from "1980s" to
> "1855." Just terrible.
> ...
> Google Books has these cites, some (perhaps all) dubious:
> ...
> ...
> =20
> _Technical Review - The Society of Experimental Test Pilots
> - Page 246_=20 (http://books.google.com/bo
> oks?id=3D-zgOAAAAMAAJ&q=3D"whole+nine+yards"+date:1900-1970&dq
=3D"whole+nine=
> +yards"+date:1900-1970&num=3D100&ie=3DISO-8859-1)=20
> by  Society of Experimental Test Pilots - 1957 These results
> are  all going into a common report when the whole nine
> yards=20 gets=20 wrapped  up and, in fact, there will be no
> separate spin evaluation of the =20 ...


The document includes a Mission Report on Apollo 15, so it must be after
Aug 1971.

> ...
> ...
> _District of Columbia Appropriations for 1961: Hearings
> Before the=20 Subcommittee of the Committee ... - Page
> 1570_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3DU4EeAAAAMAAJ&q=3D"whole+ni
ne+yards"+date=
> :1900-1970&dq=3D"whole+nine+yards"+date:1900-1970
> &num=3D100&ie=3DISO-8859-1)=20
> by United States Congress.  Senate. Committee on
> Appropriations - 1960 ... buys and  the whole nine yards. It
> is a very lengthy process to include=20 drug =20 screening,
> to include in some cases financial disclosure, because we know=20 ...

This has a detailed discussion of the proposed FY 1989 budget, so it is
probably 1988.


> ...
> _District of Columbia Appropriations, 1961: Hearings Before
> a Subcommittee=20 of the Committee on ... - Page 2659_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3DpXIdAAAAMAAJ&q=3D"whole+ni
ne+yards"+date=
> :1900-1970&dq=3D"whole+nine+yards"+date:1900-1970&n
> um=3D100&ie=3DISO-8859-1)=20
> by United States Congress.  House. Committee on
> Appropriations - 1960 How many employees  does the Board
> have=E2=80=94clerks, secretaries, the who= le nine=20
> yards?=20 Mr.  HALL. The Board has 11 members; each member
> has a secretary and one ...

This is from a hearing May 23 1991.

> ...
> _Air Force Chaplains - Page 45_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3Dta8gAAAAMAAJ&q=3D"whole+ni
ne+yards"+date=
> :1900-1970&dq=3D"whole+nine+yards"+date:1900-1970&num=3D
> 100&ie=3DISO-8859-1)=20
> by Daniel B. Jorgensen, United  States Office, Chief of Air
> Force Chaplains,= =20 Martin Henry Scharlemann -  1961 ...
> his choir was composed of "the  atheist, the Jew, Baptists,
> Catholics,=20 and=20 Protestants, Christian  Scientists, the
> Mormon=E2=80=94we had the whole nine=  yards. =20 ...
> ["1970" is seen in the text--B.P.]

>From the title page, this document appears to cover a period from 1971
to 1980, and was published in 1986.


> ...
> ..
> _NASA SP. - Page 114_=20
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=3DfkUCAAAAIAAJ&q=3D"whole+ni
ne+yards"+date=
> :1900-1970&dq=3D"whole+nine+yards"+date:1900-1970&num=3D100&ie=3DISO
> -8859-1)=20
> by United States National Aeronautics and Space
> Administration - 1962 It simulated the whole nine  yards....
> It was fortunate for the crew that=20 Fred=20 Haise was on
> that  mission because he had spent a number of years working =20 with
>
>

This is a 1992 NASA report.
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