Word: mosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John E. Moss (D-Cal.) wrote Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson last week, forwarding a University request to have material accumulated during the war declassified. Moss, chairman of a House sub-committee on Government Information, said the material occupied "badly needed library space equivalent to a room 100 by 70 feet, packed tightly from floor to ceiling." He said storage costs amounted to $1200 per year...
...Moss asserted that the material includes "not only administrative and personal records, but also notebooks and reports of the scientists who did the work." The classified data were not only papers relating to scientific research done here during the war, but also contract and personnel records...
...Moss wrote directly to Wilson, "in the hope that a solution can be found to unravel the maze of red tape hiding a wealth of such material not only at Harvard but at other universities and in government warehouses...
...Moss' sub-committee has conducted an insistent series of inquiries into executive department secrecy policies in the last few years...
...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...