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USAF history of B-36 development read by Maj Gen F H Smith Jr, House com
FRANKFORT, Germany, Aug. 9 -- The United States Military Government has reversed itself and approved the general claims restitution law for indemnification of victims of nazism as the result of an extraordinary and virtually one-man battle on behalf of the measure by John J. McCloy, High Commissioner-designate.
Stainback signs decrees for seizing 2 cos; ILWU orders strikers not to work for Govt; SS Steel Maker sails despite pickets; MEBA orders members not to sail ships loaded by Govt dockers
Repr Marcantonio sees US 'imperialism,' House; rebuked by Repr Roosevelt
Dr J R Steelman names 11 depressed areas to which Govt buying is to be funneled on Pres Truman's order; plan outlined
1949Homer Burton Adkins, American chemist (born 1892)[†]
Homer Burton Adkins was an American chemist who studied the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins was regarded as top in his field and a world authority on the hydrogenation of organic compounds. Adkins is known for his wartime work, where he experimented with chemical agents and poisonous gasses. Renowned for his work, Adkins eventually suffered a series of heart attacks and died in 1949.
1949An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.[†]
The National Security Act of 1947 was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first secretary of defense.