Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Lyle Phillips could well use some competent "woolly-brained" physicists to analyze the methods used by his physics department. Looking at the pathetic pupil achievement in these courses at the University of Buffalo causes me to ask: When will university physics and math departments take a good long look at how to teach science...
...Army was not satisfied merely with building intermediate-range missiles; it also wanted sanction to use them operationally. To get that sanction, Army Pentagonians deemed it necessary to knock down Air Force doctrine that claimed exclusive operational rights to all but battlefield missiles. In May 1956, they began handing out scalding anti-Air Force docu ments to favored reporters. The Air Force replied with its own propaganda bombs, and the interservice brawl finally forced Defense Secretary Charles Wilson to redefine service roles and missions in the light of advancing missile technology. The war, begun by the Army, nearly ruined...
...satellite contest. During the next few weeks, McElroy received more than 100 ideas from the services for putting a U.S. satellite into space. Finally, on Nov. 8, McElroy announced his decision: to backstop Vanguard, the Army was ordered to "proceed with preparations for launching a scientific satellite by use of a modified Jupiter-C test vehicle...
...last few months, the Fed's only real attempt to pump more credit into the economy has been to allow bank reserves (and thus their lending ability) to increase by some $500 million, partly through open market purchases of Treasury securities. But so far, it has failed to use its strongest economic medicine: lowering the reserves all member banks must maintain to cover deposits. Currently, the FRB requires banks to keep reserves at an average ranging from 20% of loans for big central city banks to 12% for small country banks, well above the legal minimums. Even...
...Russians would welcome a U.S. trade fair, Congress appropriated $2.2 million to finance a U.S. exhibit in Moscow, and a group of Commerce Department officials went to Russia to negotiate. But the Government ended up without an invitation and with Neuburger in control of the property it wanted to use. Government officials grumped that the U.S. could run a better fair than private enterprise, with its interest in profit, expressed fear that Neuburger would stock the fair with industrial machines and fertilizers instead of U.S. consumer goods that would really bedazzle the Russians. So far, the Government has declined...