Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harmony was in the air as the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy met last week to hear AEC's new program to develop U.S. atomic power. After the long battles between Lewis
Strauss and Congress, there was hope for an era of good feeling under new AEC Chairman John A. McCone, who talked of a more vigorous program-just what the committee wanted...
...McCone touched a sensitive committee nerve almost at once by saying that "efforts during the past five years have paid off in remarkable progress. I believe we have had a good program." Snapped Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, author of a bill to spend $1 billion on advanced nuclear development by 1965: "It has failed miserably, else you might not be chairman of the commission...
...Nine. The fact was that Chairman McCone, his funds cut back by the Bureau of the Budget, had presented a program that went little farther than last year's (TIME, Jan. 26). The Democrats charged that the AEC's plan, which calls for $249 million for atomic power projects in fiscal 1960-more than half of it for the military-actually represents a cut that would provide only $14.5 million in new money for civilian power reactors, v. $74 million authorized last year. AEC would drop six projects intended for 1959, including a 100,000-kw. heavy-water...
EVERYONE in Washington agrees that the U.S. should have a new Government housing program. But how much should the U.S. spend? And on what...