Word: waymack
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted his resignation). Admiral W. W. Smith's $12,000 chairmanship of the Maritime Commission was also open...
...nominate the rest of the AEC team for staggered terms: Sumner Pike, four years; Lewis Strauss, three; William Waymack, two; Robert Bacher...
...photographers away and the radio men took over. They unveiled the bronze plaque on which was written: "On December 2, 1942 man achieved here the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy." Fermi said a few shy words. Iowa's Bill Waymack, representing the Atomic Energy Commission, also said something. The crowd of 150 didn't hear what they said because the public-address system got fouled up. The red-faced man came back out of the excavation again and asked: "They get it all fixed, Mac?" Yes, I told...
...faced the job, no one knew better than Lilienthal the extent of the uncharted wilderness that surrounded him. It was the strange, other-side-of-the-moon wilderness of the Atomic Age. He was not alone in that world. With him were four others: Robert Bacher, Lewis Strauss, William Waymack, Sumner Pike. In innocence and earnestness they had entered their eerie world together on the day last October when President Truman nominated them to be the gods of the atomic mountain, the Commissioners...
...editor was friendly, shaggy William Wesley Waymack, 58, who looks more like a farmer than a Pulitzer-Prize-winning editor of the Des Moines Register. The scientist was Robert Fox Bacher, 41, cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...