Proceedings of the Second Interdisciplinary Conference on Selected Effects of a General War - Volume 2DASA information and analysis center, General Electric, TEMPO, 1969 - 402 pages |
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Page v - Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York 14620.
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Page 146 - ... banks of the Reserve System do. Whether they are members or not, and have to buy stock, and have to comply with the •other requirements, is not too important, and I would certainly be willing to waive that. Mr. WOLCOTT. One other question. This $5,000,000,000 overdraft authority of the Treasury, I don't know whether you want to get into that or not, but that expires this next year. I think you sponsored that, didn't you ? Mr. ECCLES. That is right. Mr. WOLCOTT. Do you think it should be continued...
Page 38 - May air burst 1956 (15 megaton) westerly direction, and seven or eight minutes later a loud explosion was heard. Afterwards it was learned that the flash and explosion had been caused by the hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll. About three hours after the explosion, fine dust began to fall on the boat. The falling of dust lasted for several hours and ceased towards noon. The boat as well as the fishermen and the fishes caught by them were covered with a white sheet of fine dust. After a two weeks
Page 38 - Japanese fishermen on board the fishing boat, No. 5 Fukuryu Maru, were engaged in fishing in the Middle Pacific about 90 miles north-east of Bikini Atoll, when a reddish white flash was seen on the horizon in a west-south-westerly direction, and seven or eight minutes later a loud explosion was heard.
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Page iii - ... 205 GEORGE NICHOLS, JR., Discussion leader GENERAL SESSION 1 255 MARSHALL R. URIST AND FRANKLIN C. MCLEAN, Discussion leaders GENERAL SESSION II 327 MARSHALL R. URIST AND FRANKLIN C. MCLEAN, Discussion leaders REFERENCES 359 INDEX 371 INTRODUCTION The Second Conference on Biology of Hard Tissue, under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences Interdisciplinary Communications Program, was held at Pacific Palisades, Calif., with Dr. Marshall R. Urist and Franklin C. McLean as Cochairmen....