BIG U.S. EXPENDITURE
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ATOMIC BOMB DEVELOPMENT
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Received Tuesday, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, April 9. Tlie United States is still spending approximately 50u,000,000 dollars a year for the deveiopment and improvement of atomic energy anu atomic hombs, says the New Yoiu. Times' Washington correspondent. Furthermore, the Manliatcah dlscric. of the Army ■ Engiueers ' Corps, which prcduced the bombs, was on hand about .200,000,000 dollars which it is turning over to the Atomic Energy Commission proposed in the pending legislation. , - A well-infofmed source said tlier^ had -hardly been -any diminution in the vast scope- of the atomic bomo project since the fxrst bombs were dropped. There had even -been some expansion, which had widened the scope of research in the production o. the fissionable material used in the homb, but which also promised great er benefits to mankind.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1946, Page 5
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