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Excerpt from Ocean Sciences and National Security: Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U. S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session
All concur on the vital significance of the oceans to the national welfare and on the disproportionately small fraction of our national scientific resources in terms of manpower and funds that is now devoted to oceanic research. Proposals were outlined in considerable detail to accelerate this effort promptly, such that the level of effort 10 years hence would be roughly 3 to 4 times that at present. These proposals involve Federal expenditures at that time of approximately $85 million per year in contrast to the 1958 base used for the study of $24 million per year. According to these proposals, an even higher rate of appropriations during this 10 - year interval is recommended to replace obsolete and overage research vessels, frequently converted from fishing trawlers, that now characterize the research fleet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
