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Grafton Sentinel in Grafton, West Virginia

12 Dec 1947

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Grafton Sentinel

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Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

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Dec 12, 1947

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Compton to Address West Virginia University Graduates

Dr. Karl Taylor Compton president of MIT will deliver the commencement address to about 1,000 degree candidates at West Virginia University on May 31. President Irvin Stewart announced the event noting their wartime collaboration in defense science. Last year Compton shaped atomic bomb projects and served on related evaluation boards.

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Morgantown Karl Taylor Compton Massachusetts Institute of Technology West Virginia University Irvin Stewart Compton Stewart National Defense Research Committee Office of Scientific Research and Development M.lt Truman Joint Chiefs of Staff Princeton
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Power project debate fuels national defense argument

The speaker presses that the canal is vital to national defense and would aid New York and New England, while labor and the United Mine Workers oppose it as a make work scheme. Huntress cites Michigan interests and railway freight-rate fears as motives, and Royall says the canal is not vital to national defense.

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Huntress Middle West New York New England TVA United Mine Workers Permanenty Michigan Wara Sea Eye
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