Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Division Down. During the period when the pundits could see nothing in their tea leaves except intercontinental bombers, the Army plugged hard for its giant 280-mm. atomic cannon, with its 20-mile range. Now, as the Joint Chiefs accept the possibility of a stalemate in strategic airpower and the need for powerful battle forces (TIME, Jan. 10), the Army also has in sight atomic shells for its conventional big artillery pieces, 20 howitzers, rocket launchers and atomic heads for its guided missiles...
...Ottawa and Washington last week, lawmakers studied a proposed Canada-U.S. agreement for joint action against the lamprey. If the agreement is ratified, as expected, the two nations will invest nearly $3,000,000 (69% by the U.S., 31% by Canada) to erect lamprey-killing fences on all the spawning streams flowing to the Great Lakes. It couldn't happen to a nastier beastie...
...Administration has also revived last year's plan to get the Government out of the business of running two "atom cities"-Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash. At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Democratic heads of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week introduced bills to end Government ownership and operation of Oak Ridge and Richland. The responsibility for schools, streets, etc. would be handed over to local residents, eventually saving the Federal Government upwards of $1,500,000 yearly...
Doctors' Dilemma. Most of the confusion about vaccine distribution could have been avoided if the Government, the National Foundation, the A.M.A. and local medical societies had begun to cooperate months ago. They might easily have made plans for joint action on allocations, but simply failed to get together. The situation was further complicated when, weeks ago, "detail men" for the drug companies called on doctors and asked how much vaccine they wanted. How much they actually got depended less on how far ahead the company was with its production program than on how the salesmen liked individual doctors...
...Economic Report assume the function of a fiscal policy maker. The plan is impractical, however, because this committee has always concerned itself with investigations of specific economic details. Traditional procedure would inevitably force questions of policy aside. By including members of several committees--finance, expenditures, and economy--in one Joint Committee, perhaps the dissimilarity of methods and practices might restrain the legislative instinct for the insignificant. Of all these proposals, Lipscomb's is most likely to unite the various participants in budget planning in a group which can keep its mind on policy...