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Judy and Bill Sr from 2001. Dr Fauci was even more most sexiest back then.
Judy Woodruff still looks great too. Not just Dr F
When the United States joined World War II, Vannevar Bush was president of the Carnegie Institution. Several months before, on June 12, 1940, Bush had been instrumental in persuading President Franklin Roosevelt to create the National Defense Research Committee (later superseded
by the Office of Scientific Research and Development) to mobilize and coordinate the nation's scientific war effort. Bush housed the new agency in the Carnegie Institution's administrative headquarters at 16th and P Streets, NW, in Washington, DC, converting its rotunda and
auditorium into office cubicles. From this location, Bush supervised, among many other projects, the Manhattan Project. Carnegie scientists cooperated with the development of the proximity fuze and mass production of penicillin.
The NDRC's most important project eventually became the Manhattan Project—the full-scale project to produce nuclear weapons by the United States. An Advisory Committee on Uranium had been established to consider the feasibility of an atomic bomb as part of the
National Bureau of Standards during 1939 as the result of the Einstein–Szilárd letter, but had not made significant progress.

The NDRC funded research into hundreds of different projects at many different educational and industrial sites around the country. Some of the ones it
is best remembered for include:
•Atomic bomb research (would later become the Manhattan Project)
•DUKW – amphibious vehicle
•Project Pigeon
•Proximity fuze
•Radar at the Radiation Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Committee on Uranium, chaired by Lyman Briggs, reported directly to the Chairman of the NDRC and as such does not appear in the chart above.
The Mansfield Amendment of 1973 expressly limited appropriations for defense research (through ARPA/DARPA) only to projects with
direct military application.

After his ambassadorship, Mansfield served for a time as a senior adviser on East Asian affairs to Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment banking firm. Goldman entered the initial public offering market in 1906 when it took Sears, Roebuck and
Company public. The deal was facilitated by Henry Goldman's personal friendship with Julius Rosenwald, an owner of Sears. Other IPOs followed, including F. W. Woolworth and Continental Can. Reflecting modern trends in retailing, the company decided to stop producing the general
catalog in 1993. While Sears no longer issues the Big Book Catalog, the company continues offering many specialty catalogs including the Christmas Wish Book, and catalogs for tools, auto accessories, home improvements, clothing, and even Barbie collectibles. Today Sears is
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His groundbreaking 1984 album Purple Rain was one of the best-selling albums of the year. Tipper Gore, wife of then-Sen. Al Gore, picked up a copy as a gift for her 11-year old daughter. In her book Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society, she explained what happened next.
“When
we brought the album home, put it on our stereo, and listened to it together, we heard the words to ... 'Darling Nikki': 'I knew a girl named Nikki/Guess (you) could say she was a sex fiend/I met her in a hotel lobby/Masturbating with a magazine'," she recounted. "The vulgar
lyrics embarrassed both of us. At first, I was stunned, but then I got mad! Millions of Americans were buying Purple Rain with no idea what to expect. Thousands of parents were giving the album to their children — many even younger than my daughter.”Their 6 p.m. wedding
merged the Gores of Tennessee and the Schiffs of New York. The political clan claims three former senators, one of whom is father of the bride -- Vice President Al Gore. The Schiffs' 19th-century patriarch was Jacob Schiff, the powerful banker and philanthropist.
It makes me laugh that al Gore is so key in all the dealings. Armond Hammer had the first dip into Libya oil fields with Oxy Petroleum. Can’t believe a Kaiser was allowed to audit the Elk Hills naval petro reside that caused the Teapot dome crisis in 20s.

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