Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few minutes the Senate then confirmed the other AEC Commissioners: Robert F. Bacher, Lewis L. Strauss, William W. Waymack, Sumner T. Pike and General Manager Carroll L. Wilson. Next day, the Commission held a meeting of the entire staff in the auditorium of the Public Health building, into which the Commission had moved three weeks ago. The sense of the meeting: "Now we can get on with...
...David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The debate was stalled when Ohio's John Bricker, who is against confirmation, proposed a delaying action: have the FBI investigate the loyalty of the commissioners, and let the Atomic Energy Committee do a second screening of AEC's 706 employees...
While it was at it, the committee also approved W. W. Waymack, Lewis L. Strauss, Dr. Robert Bacher and Sumner T. Pike as commission members, and Carroll Wilson as general manager of AEC...
...boss of TVA he had opposed every attempt of Congressmen to interfere in that undertaking. TVA had forced the private power companies out of Tennessee. Power companies were applying pressure now to keep Lilienthal out of the chairmanship of AEC...
...AEC would control more power than the world had ever known. Atomic energy might eventually replace every present source of power-coal, water or oil. An economic revolution was at hand. To lead that revolution some Republicans and some Democrats did not want David Lilienthal. Some military men did not want him either because they thought he was naive and did not know a Red from a patriot...