Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That was your mistake, you see," O'Mahoney snapped back. "You just assumed that I am on some side of the street. I know the side on which you are, Mr. Fairless...
...Atomic Energy Commission, worried over the enormous problem of integrating its Government-controlled giant into a free-enterprise economy, wanted to know why. It called in a committee of businessmen, headed by able James W. Parker, 62, utility engineer, onetime head of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and president of the Detroit Edison Co. This week, Parker's committee reported back. Its answer was a blast at AEC. (Snapped one AEC staffer: the report clearly showed that industry was "drooling" to grab off atomic energy processes...
...until AEC told industry much more about the atomic energy program. AEC should modify its sweeping code of secrecy, the committee said, since in many cases it was unnecessary and downright harmful to the program. Secrecy was carried so far, the committee implied, that businessmen often did not even know how or where to get the barest information...
...admitted that opportunities for commercial application of atomic energy are distinctly "limited as compared with the opportunities which exist . . . in other fields." Nevertheless, the committee thought industry would discover many "economically rewarding" activities if AEC would open up-and AEC, in turn, should benefit from industry's enormous know...
...Caronia, biggest passenger liner built since the war, completed her last trial run before her maiden trip to New York next week. Honor guest was the Duke of Edinburgh, who cracked: "I'm sorry my wife can't be with me; as you know, we've had another launching in the meantime...