ENVIRONMENTAL ODYSSEY (cl)University of Washington Press, 1990 - 264 pages |
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... major controversies , and helped to bring environmental hazards out of the obscurity of uninstructed fear into the light of intelligent management . I do not know of a more pleasant way to learn about the forces that have made our world ...
... major controversies , and helped to bring environmental hazards out of the obscurity of uninstructed fear into the light of intelligent management . I do not know of a more pleasant way to learn about the forces that have made our world ...
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... major focus of public and political concern . This book had its origin in a lecture I delivered in 1985 at the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the New York University Medical Center on the occasion of my retirement to the ...
... major focus of public and political concern . This book had its origin in a lecture I delivered in 1985 at the Institute of Environmental Medicine of the New York University Medical Center on the occasion of my retirement to the ...
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... major influences on my career , often unknowingly . However , their influence was secondary to that of three major historical developments in the mid- twentieth century . These were the sudden expansion of U.S. industrial ca- pacity ...
... major influences on my career , often unknowingly . However , their influence was secondary to that of three major historical developments in the mid- twentieth century . These were the sudden expansion of U.S. industrial ca- pacity ...
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... major role . I spent the summer of 1936 beginning to get experience . My first job , for which I received twenty - five cents an hour , was on the 4:00 P.m. to midnight shift in a lower Manhattan loft where electrolytic condensers were ...
... major role . I spent the summer of 1936 beginning to get experience . My first job , for which I received twenty - five cents an hour , was on the 4:00 P.m. to midnight shift in a lower Manhattan loft where electrolytic condensers were ...
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... major adventure for someone who was born in East Harlem on the island of Manhattan and had never before seen any city but New York . My interview in Philadelphia went well . I was offered the job , and reported for work on the Monday ...
... major adventure for someone who was born in East Harlem on the island of Manhattan and had never before seen any city but New York . My interview in Philadelphia went well . I was offered the job , and reported for work on the Monday ...
Contents
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Industrial Hygiene in the War Industries | 25 |
Atomic Energy Commission Development of the Health and Safety Laboratory | 42 |
Atomic Energy Commission Studies of Radioactive Fallout | 63 |
Atomic Energy Commission From Science to Administration | 104 |
New York University Medical Center | 134 |
Environmental Protection Administrator City of New York | 176 |
Meeting Writing and Advising | 207 |
From the Past to the Present A FiftyFour Year Perspective | 219 |
NOTES | 244 |
INDEX | 252 |
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