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Thomas Keith Glennan. Appointed...
...Career: Glennan started out as an electrical engineer, veered into moviemaking by way of the electrical aspects of sound pictures. He became operations manager of Paramount Pictures Inc. in Hollywood, studio manager in 1939. In 1942 he returned east to be director of the Navy's Underwater Sound Laboratory at New London, Conn. In 1947 he was chosen president of Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland...
...into the atom business quick, Atomic Energy Commissioner T. Keith Glennan told private industry last week. Otherwise, growth of the Government monopoly in the atomic field may prove to be "the first step in the extension of governmental control over our basic industries." Unless private industry "gets in on the ground floor," Glennan told the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a golden opportunity for future industrial uses of atomic energy will be lost. "What I would like to see is more industries knocking at our door and asking, 'What's in this...
Some of the things in it for industry, said Glennan, are the uses of radioactive waste from the operation of reactors. Possible uses: activation of phosphors for luminous signs and markers, static eliminators for a variety of industrial processes, reduction of starting-voltage requirements in process-control instruments which incorporate a source of radiation, cold sterilization of drugs and foods, and portable low-level power sources...
...Fifth Man. At week's end, Truman tried a new $15,000-a-year appointment on the Senate. He named Dr. T. Keith Glennan, 44, president of Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology, to fill a vacancy on the five-man AEC. A Yale-trained electrical engineer who once worked in Hollywood as studio manager for Paramount and Sam Goldwyn, Glennan was director of the Navy's underwater sound lab at New London, Conn, during World War II. He had no special interest in or knowledge of atomic energy ("My interests have been in administration...