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been instrumental in persuading President Franklin Roosevelt to create the National Defense Research Committee (later superseded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
moving into the electronic age by offering Sears Direct services. This gives the customer the opportunity to order items through the Shop at Home catalog concept featuring an on-line Wish Book, and an on-line site for Craftsman tools and parts.
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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The E.W. Scripps Company controlled United Press until its absorption of William Randolph Hearst's smaller competing agency, INS, in 1958 to form UPI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Pr…
In 2000, UPI was purchased by News World Communications, an international news media company founded in 1976 by Unification Church leader Sun Myung Moon.
UPI famously scooped the AP in reporting the assassination of US President John Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963. UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith was an eyewitness, and he commandeered the press car's only phone to dictate the story to UPI as AP reporter Jack Bell
The Council was founded in 1962 as the Council for Abolishing War by Hungarian nuclear physicist Leó Szilárd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_f…
Leo Szilard (/ˈsɪlɑːrd/; Hungarian: Szilárd Leó, pronounced [ˈsilaːrd ˈlɛoː]; born Leó Spitz; February 11, 1898 – May 30, 1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear fission reactor in
1934, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. According to György Marx he was one of the Hungarian scientists known as The Martians.
Justice For J6 Rally Organizer Said The Group Was In Constant Contact With Law Enforcement Ahead Of The Event | The Daily Caller “
Justice for J6” rally organizer Matt Braynard said the group was in constant contact with several law enforcement agencies dailycaller.com/2021/09/24/jus…
in Washington, D.C., leading up to the event. Matt Braynard, executive director of Look Ahead America, said Friday that the protests demanding “justice” for the hundreds of people accused of breaching the Capitol on Jan. 6 will be peaceful. That online bio also notes that
Braynard is an “award winning short fiction writer.” In that vein, he founded a literary magazine in 2017 as part his MFA coursework at Columbia University. Called Otoya, it billed itself as a “Literary Journal of the New Nationalism.”The publication, Braynard explained in a
According to Mark Wahlberg, Entourage was initially conceived when his assistant asked if he could film Wahlberg and his friends, calling them "hilarious.” Other reports credit Eric Weinstein, a long-time friend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entourage…
of Wahlberg, with the idea of filming the actor's group of friends. Eric Ross Weinstein (born October 26, 1965) is an American cultural commentator and mathematician. He is a managing director of Thiel Capital. Peter Andreas Thiel (/tiːl/; born 11 October 1967) is a German-
American billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital
Writing this week in the Washington Post, neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan assembled a persuasive case that Trump’s continuing campaign of lies and subterfuge could well succeed in breaking our politico.com/news/magazine/…
He served in the State Department from 1984 to 1988 as a member of the policy planning staff, as principal speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and as deputy for policy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs.
Kagan is married to the American diplomat
Victoria Nuland. She served as a nonresident fellow in the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution and senior counselor at the Albright Stonebridge Group. On January 5, 2021, it was reported that President-elect Joe Biden would nominate Nuland to serve as Under
The Hills research department is total garbage. Joe Biggs from 4th Psyops has a full sworn affidavits explaining his role as FBI informant. You think they’d hire some diggers for a research department. Schiffs Intel committee story as flimsy as having fang fang f’d Swalwell