Word: astin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After squirming through three weeks of committee hearings, Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks has reinstated Allen V. Astin as Director of the Bureau of Standards. But his original decision to fire Astin revealed political pressures on this essentially un political body which return to status quo cannot erase...
...affair started early in the year when Astin issued an unfavorable report on a battery additive produced by Pioneers Inc. and dubbed AD-X2. As a result, the Post Office Department canceled Pioneer's mailing rights. Then Weeks stepped in and secured the firm its post office sanction and, on March 31, demanded and received Astin's resignation. When called to defend his action before the Senate Small Business Committee, Weeks claimed that Astin had not been sufficiently objective in his tests. He cited similar tests made at M.I.T., claiming that in this case, AD-X2 had proved successful...