Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be...
The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission submitted last week a semi-annual report on work-in-progress that did not report very much:
Atomic Power. Commercial atomic power plants, says the AEC, are not just around the corner. Two "nuclear reactors" for producing power have been authorized and should be in operation in two or three years. But the commission warns that they will not be commercial. It thinks that fairly practical plants...
Into Washington last week trooped the first trade commission ever to come to the U.S. from Tibet. The five members of the commission wore eye-catching yellow brocade kimonos (over regular summer-weight suits) as they sat down to discuss their business with the Department of Commerce.
U.S. Lines offered to pay $25 million towards the cost of a $65 million-plus liner which would be the biggest and fastest ever built in the U.S. Two days later, Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. offered to invest $20 million in two new speed liners for its South American runs...