Word: aec
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...moral to be drawn from the story as originally printed, and the one the Sun and other papers did draw, is that the Atomic Energy Commission is unfitted for the job with which it is entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody...
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...
...first, though minor, tasks would be the hiring of a gardener. The lawns surrounding the gleaming white building, like some other AEC matters, had grown shaggy and ragged during the weeks of uncertainty...
...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...