Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
ABBOTT activity Administration agencies altitude amount Antarctic Antarctica appropriation Arctic atmosphere aurora authority booster budget Bureau Chairman committee Congress construction contract cosmic ray cost debt Defense Department Director DRYDEN earth engine equipment estimate expenditures facilities Federal fiscal year 1959 flare funds geomagnetic Geophysical GLENNAN going Government IGY program increase International International Geophysical investigations ionosphere laboratory Little America MAHON measurements ment meteorology miles military million missiles NASA NASA plant National nuclear observations Observatory ocean oceanographic operation orbit payload percent personnel President problems Project MERCURY projects proposed propulsion radiation radio recommended record request research and development Research Center satellite scientific scientists Secretary ANDERSON Secretary BRUCKER seismology SIEPERT SILVERSTEIN solar solar flares sounding rockets STANS stations studies temperature things THOMAS tion Total U.S. National Committee U.S. Weather Bureau ULMER vehicles weather Wilkes station world data center YATES
Popular passages
Page 153 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is indeed a pleasure to appear before you today and to give you a brief word picture of the activities of the Army Ground Forces.
Page 256 - In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.
Page 153 - States, except that activities peculiar to or primarily associated with the development of weapons systems, military operations, or the defense of the United States (including the research and development necessary to make effective provision for the defense of the United States...
Page 170 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 94 - ... any manner a Member of Congress, to favor or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation or appropriation by Congress, whether before or after the introduction of any bill or resolution proposing such legislation or appropriation, but this shall not prevent officers or employees of the United States or of its departments or agencies from communicating to Members of Congress on the request of any Member or to Congress, through the proper official channels, requests for legislation or appropriations...
Page 97 - Any officer or employee of the United States, who, after notice and hearing by the superior officer vested with the power of removing him, is found to have violated or attempted to violate this section, shall be removed by such superior officer from office or employment.
Page 97 - Whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, the development of any water resources for public purposes should be undertaken by the United States itself, the Commission shall not approve any application for any project affecting such development...
Page 178 - FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION...
Page 96 - Government should be met, shall be submitted to Congress or any committee thereof by any officer or employee of any department or establishment, unless at the request of either House of Congress.
Page 171 - ... (1) survey all significant aeronautical and space activities, including the policies, plans, programs, and accomplishments of all departments and agencies of the United States engaged in such activities ; "(2) develop a comprehensive program of aeronautical and space activities to be conducted by...