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_8wish to carr on studivs in the ares.
Tt is proposed to limit tac Aniti2
activitics o. the station to modest oroportions with annual operating costs %t
a level not to exceed $20,000 until the success of the station has become firmly
osteblishcud.
The Comaittec suggested that olans fcr
a biologie2l station at Mniwetok be further investi.ated with a view toward its
establishment, snd thet
. staff oun or on tois sup ajceet be prepercd for considera-~
tion by the Commission.
Status Report of Over-2ll
Preer 2is
of tie Division during
Dr.
Bugher oriented the Com.ittce on
the over-21ll prograns and the work
tae past yeer.
The
Branch Chicfs desericud the
individusl
pro;reais in |.cdicine, sioslogy, Health Piesics, Civil Defense, Rediation
Instruments, and Program unalysis which incliicd the budget estinates, and
rovorted on tne progress and probleuns connectud therewith.
Of major interest
was the revort on the survey thet wes mide to determine the present status of th
relotively now radiation instruments inoustry.
It was brought out thet of the
75 companics in the ficid sost of thum malting radiation instruments, (34 replics
have ocen reccived) it was found that 6 compinics are grossing over a million
dollars.
That sales have inerersed from sligntly less than four and a haif
miliion dollars in 1948 to an expected gross to exceed twunty million dollers
in 1952.
The umoloymnt has grown from 130 nconle in i9h to around 2400 in
1952.
Emphasis on the Various .spects
of the Roscarch Program
Dr. Bughcr opened the discussion, and
anong the problems that he outlined
wherein emphasis was being placed was the work on the biological effects of
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