Word: minimums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civilian Agency. On the theory that far horizons demand a fresh approach, some space planners advocate an entirely new federal agency that would direct either the entire U.S. space program or, at minimum, its nonmilitary aspects. House Majority Leader John McCormack has proposed a five-member National Science Council. In the Senate, Arkansas' John McClellan and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey have sponsored a measure authorizing establishment of a department of science and technology run by a secretary with Cabinet rank. Currently these proposals for another Government agency are downrated because the agency would have to undergo the lengthy...
Redstone has no set routine. "Once you have routine," says a lab chief, "you don't have development any longer. Everything changes, and if we stopped changing, we would be out of business." Each man is tops in his own field, works with a minimum of interference from Von Braun. Says one: "If you leave me alone in peace, maybe I'll get finished in a year. If you try to help me, it may take me three years." Yet the work has to be held together, and that is Von Braun...
...issue was the turbulent Snake River along the Idaho-Oregon border, main tributary of the great Columbia and potential source of 3,600,000 kw. of the minimum 6,500,000 needed in the Northwest by 1967. There, unlike its previous decision in favor of three private dams at Hells...
...June 30 is the reciprocal trade act (real name: Trade Agreements Act), the charter under which the executive branch occasionally makes moderate cuts in U.S. tariffs if other countries make cuts in their tariffs on U.S. imports. The President asked Congress to: 1) extend the act for "a minimum" of five years instead of the usual three, 2) grant him the authority to cut tariffs as much as 10% a year-but not more than 25% over the five-year period...
...year has matched Germany's, and exceeded that of all other countries in Europe. But massive outlays for supplies abroad, plus the war in Algeria, plus openhanded spending under Guy Mollet's Socialist government at home, reduced gold and hard-money reserves to an untouchable minimum. Overbuying of raw materials last year and speculation against the franc helped put foreign trade out of balance by $1.4 billion...