Word: commissioner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the past two years, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have decided that the plutonium output of the U.S. Government's reactors at Hanford. Wash, and Savannah River, S.C. is not large enough to meet future needs for tactical nuclear weapons and air-defense missiles. This year, at the...
Goldfine learned to be as bipartisan in spreading his scandals as he has been with his money, a fact that further lessened his appeal to Chairman Oren Harris of Arkansas and his Democratic majority. New Jersey Republican Charles Wolverton, following up the Securities and Exchange Commission probe of Goldfine'...
Kiwi-A. This sort of engine, which nuclear engineers consider a first step only, has been in development at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for three years under the code name of Project Rover. The first experimental engine, the Kiwi-A (which is not expected to fly, hence the name), is...
Warfield went to Warwick at the invitation of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, which since the war has underwritten a mammoth musical program in the sparsely settled bush areas. The country currently has six ABC symphony orchestras. Every year they travel thousands of miles by train, bus, and paddle steamer to...
"Ten years ago," recalls Queensland Symphony Conductor Rudolf Pekarek, "you had to beg people to come to concerts. Now they're always packed." Reason is that the Broadcasting Commission has trumpeted the cultural values of good music as a measure of a town's civic taste. In towns...