National Science Foundation: Review of the First Eleven Months of the International Geophysical Year: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - 191 pages |
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active duty Admiral BEARDSLEY Admiral CLEXTON Admiral HOLLOWAY Admiral RUSSELL Air Force aircraft airglow altitude amount ANDREWS Antarctic appropriation Arctic atmosphere aurora aviation budget activity Bureau Byrd Station Captain SCHUMM Chairman Colonel committee contract cosmic rays cost CRUMPACKER data center earth electronics Ellsworth Station engineering enlisted equipment estimate 1958 estimate experience facilities feet fiscal year 1958 fleet Fort Churchill funds geomagnetic Geophysical glaciology going guided missiles IGY program increase installed International Geophysical Island latitudes Little America maintenance Marine Corps MCALISTER measurements ment meteorology miles military million Naval Reserve Navy obligations observations Observatory ocean oceanography officers operation OSTERTAG percent personnel planned procurement radiation radio record request requirements Research rocket satellite seismology SHEPPARD ships solar activity stations submarine supply surface temperature THOMAS tion United unobligated balance WEXLER WIESEMAN WIGGLESWORTH world data centers YATES
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