Records of the University of Florida Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station 1919-1964 1941-1964

Florida. Nuclear Development Commission

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Florida State Improvement Commission

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The Florida State Improvement Commission was created in 1941 (Ch. 20509, Laws). Its duties were to facilitate the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and operation of public facilities and roads; to relieve unemployment; to aid counties and municipalities in securing federal and private monies; and to regulate and license airports. The Commission was abolished in 1955 and its duties were transferred to the Florida Development Commission (Ch. 29788, Laws). From the description of ...

Smith, David B. (David Barry)

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Morgen, Ralph A. (Ralph Alexander), 1903-

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Weil, Joseph

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Forsman, Marion Edwin

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University of Florida. Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station

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The predecessor of the Engineering and Industrial Experiment Station (EIES) at the University of Florida was the Engineering Experiment Station created, but not funded, by the Florida Board of Control in 1929. The Dean of the College of Engineering served as the Director of the Engineering Experiment Station. When the state legislature created EIES in 1941, Dean Joseph Weil was appointed its first director. He served as the director until 1949, when Ralph Alexander Morgen became the Station head...