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AAU |
Association of American Universities |
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ABA |
American Bar Association |
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ADA |
Americans for Democratic Action |
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AEC |
Atomic Energy Commission |
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AFBF |
American Farm Bureau Federation |
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AF of L |
American Federation of Labor |
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ALCOA |
Aluminum Company of America |
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ANP |
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion project |
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anvil |
Code name for invasion of the south of France
in August 1944 |
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ANZUS |
Australia, New Zealand, United States |
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AP |
Associated Press |
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aquatone |
Code name for U-2 flights over Soviet Union |
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ARPA |
Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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ASNE |
American Society of Newspaper Editors |
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Atlas |
Liquid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile
program |
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AT&T |
American Telephone and Telegraph Company |
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AWF |
Ann Whitman File (Eisenhower's presidential papers) |
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BAC |
Business Advisory Council |
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BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
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Blue Streak |
Intermediate-range liquid-fuel British ballistic
missile |
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BOAC |
British Overseas Airways Corporation |
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CAA |
Civil Aeronautics Administration |
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CAB |
Civil Aeronautics Board |
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castle |
Hydrogen bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Pacific,
March-April 1954 |
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CEA |
Council of Economic Advisors |
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CED |
Committee for Economic Development |
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CENTO |
Central European Treaty Organization |
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CHINCOM |
China Committee of the Paris Consultative Group
(meets in Paris, May 7, 1957) |
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CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency |
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CIGS |
Chief of the Imperial General Staff |
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CINCARIB |
Commander in Chief, Caribbean |
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CINCSAC |
Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command |
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CIO |
Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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Common Market |
European Economic Community |
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Corporal |
Mobile, surface to surface, liquid-fuel guided
missile, with nuclear warhead capability |
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cossac |
Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander |
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DAT |
French Territorial Air Defense |
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Discoverer XIV |
United States Air Force prototype recoverable
satellite program. Discoverer XIV was launched August 19, 1960,
the capsule recovered in the air |
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DLF |
Development Loan Fund |
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DM |
Deutschemark |
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dragoon |
New code name for anvil, the 1944 invasion of
southern France |
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Echo I |
United States passive communications satellite,
launched August 12, 1960 |
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EDC |
European Defense Community |
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EEC |
European Economic Community |
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EFTA |
European Free Trade Association (Outer Seven) |
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EM |
Eisenhower Manuscripts |
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EOKA |
National Organization of Cyprus Fighters; Greek
Cypriot liberation movement in Cyprus |
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EURATOM |
European Atomic Agency |
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Explorer I |
Earth satellite |
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FAA |
Federal Aviation Agency |
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FCDA |
Federal Civil Defense Administration |
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F-86 |
Jet fighter plane, carrying a Sidewinder weapons
system |
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FHA |
Federal Housing Administration |
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FOA |
Foreign Operations Administration |
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FPC |
Federal Power Commission |
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GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
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GNP |
Gross National Product |
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GOP |
Grand Old Party (Republican party) |
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GSA |
General Services Administration |
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hardtack |
Thermonuclear experiments at Bikini and Enewetok
atolls in the northern Pacific Marshall Islands, May 1958 |
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Honest John |
Surface-to-surface, free flight, solid propellant
rocket with nuclear warhead capability |
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HOPE |
Health Opportunity for People Everywhere |
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husky |
Code name for Allied invasion of Sicily in July
1943 |
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IADB |
Inter-American Development Bank |
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IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
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IAM |
International Association of Machinists |
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IBM |
International Business Machines |
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ICA |
International Cooperation Administration |
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ICBM |
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
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ICC |
Interstate Commerce Commission |
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ICC |
International Commission for the Supervision
and Control of the Armistice in Laos |
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IDA |
International Development Association |
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ILO |
International Labor Organization |
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IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
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IMG |
Informational Media Guaranty program |
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INS |
Immigration and Naturalization Service |
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IRBM |
Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile |
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IRS |
Internal Revenue Service |
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JCAE |
Joint Committee on Atomic Energy |
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JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff |
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JSTPS |
Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff |
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Jupiter |
Liquid propellant, one-stage intermediate range
ballistic missile equipped with a nuclear warhead |
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MAAG |
Military Assistance Advisory Group |
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market-garden |
Code name for airborne operation to establish
a bridgehead across the Rhine in the Netherlands in September
1944. Operation market involved seizure of bridges in the Nijmegen-Arnhem
area; Operation garden was to open a corridor from Eindhoven
northward toward Germany |
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Matador |
Subsonic, surface-to-surface, guided tactical
missile, equipped with a nuclear warhead |
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MEDICO |
Medical International Corporation |
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Mercury |
See Project Mercury |
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MRBM |
Mid-range ballistic missile with a range in the
interval 500 - 3,000 nautical miles |
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MSA |
Mutual Security Administration |
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NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Agency |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Navaho |
Ramjet-powered Mach 3 cruise missile launched
by rocket booster |
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NHPC |
National Historical Publications Commission |
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NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
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Nike Ajax |
Mobile or fixed-site, surface-to-air guided missile
designed to intercept manned bombers and airbreathing missiles
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NLRB |
National Labor Relations Board |
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NPC |
National Petroleum Council |
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NS |
Nuclear Ship |
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NSC |
National Security Council |
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NYA |
National Youth Administration |
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OAS |
Organization of American States |
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OASI |
Old Age and Survivors Insurance program |
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OCB |
Operations Coordinating Board |
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ODM |
Office of Defense Mobilization |
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OECD |
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
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OEEC |
Organization for European Economic Cooperation |
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OSS |
Office of Strategic Services |
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Outer Seven |
See European Free Trade Association |
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overlord |
Code name for the Allied invasion of Northwest
Europe in the spring, 1944 |
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Pemex |
Petróleos Mexicanos, the Mexican oil company |
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PHS |
Public Health Service |
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POL |
Petroleum, Oil, Lubricants |
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Polaris |
Submarine-launched solid-fuel ballistic missile,
equipped with a nuclear warhead |
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Project Mercury |
NASA's manned satellite program |
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PWA |
Public Works Administration |
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RCA |
Radio Corporation of America |
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Reclama |
Request to authority to reconsider its decision
or its proposed action |
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Redstone |
First U.S. large ballistic missile |
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redwing |
Pacific test series that included the first air
drop of a hydrogen bomb, May 1956 |
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Regulus |
Surface-to-surface, jet powered-guided missile,
equipped with a nuclear warhead |
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REA |
Rural Electrification Administration |
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ROK |
Republic of Korea |
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SAC |
Strategic Air Command |
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SACEUR |
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe |
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SACLANT |
Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic |
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Saturn |
Large space-vehicle launching booster |
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SEATO |
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
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SEC |
Securities and Exchange Commission |
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SHAPE |
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe |
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Sidewinder |
Air-to-air rocket with non-nuclear warhead |
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SIOP |
Single Integrated Operations Plan for nuclear
warfare |
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Skybolt |
Air-launched ballistic missile, designed to be
compatible with British aircraft |
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Sky Hawk |
U.S.- Canada projected air defense exercise |
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Sky Shield |
U.S.- Canada projected air defense exercise |
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sledgehammer |
Code name for a limited-objective attack across
the Channel in 1942 designed either to take advantage of a crack
in German morale or as a "sacrifice" operation to aid the Russians
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Snark |
Subsonic turbojet-powered cruise missile |
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SSN |
nuclear powered submarine |
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SS-10 and SS-11 |
anti-tank missiles |
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Talos |
Shipborne, surface-to-air missile, equipped with
solid-propellant rocket/ramjet engine, and nuclear or nonnuclear
warhead |
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Tartar |
Shipborne, surface-to-air missile equipped with
solid propellant rocket engine and nonnuclear warhead |
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Terrier |
Surface-to-air missile equipped with a solid
fuel rocket motor |
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Thor |
Liquid propellant, one stage, rocket- powered
intermediate range ballistic missile equipped with a nuclear
warhead |
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Tiros I and II |
Television Infrared Observation Satellite. Code
name for meteorological satellite series equipped with television
cameras to scan earth's weather conditions; launched April 1
and November 23, 1960, respectively |
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Titan |
Surface-to-surface ballistic missile program |
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torch |
Code name for Allied invasion of North and Northwest
Africa on November 8, 1942 |
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Triton |
The U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered radar-picket
submarine |
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UAR |
United Arab Republic |
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UAW |
United Automobile Workers of America |
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UGF |
United Givers Fund |
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U.N.E.F. |
United Nations Emergency Force |
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UNGA |
United Nations General Assembly |
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UP |
United Press |
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USGA |
United States Golf Association |
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USIA |
United States Information Agency |
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USO |
United Service Organizations |
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U-2 |
Secret spy plane designed to penetrate Soviet
air defenses at high altitudes |
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VA |
Veterans Administration |
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Valco |
Volta Aluminum Company |
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Van Allen Belt |
A belt of intense radiation in the magnetosphere
composed of energetic charged particles trapped by the earth's
magnetic field; discovered by physicist James Alfred Van Allen
in 1958. |
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VOA |
Voice of America |
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WEU |
Western European Union |
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WHCF |
White House Central Files |
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WPA |
Work Projects Administration; also Works Progress
Adminstration
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