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JUN 01, 1953
ARDC’s Report for 1952.
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The Air Research and Development Command, created in 1950 and made a major air command in 1951, is today an undertaking whose magnitude is indicated by the more than one‐half billion dollars of Air Force funds allocated to research and development in the fiscal year 1953. The Command itself receives only thirteen percent of the total, but coordinates and evaluates the work done by non‐Air Force agencies and private concerns financed by the remainder of the funds in addition to carrying out its own research program.

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