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Show I ATOMIC ENERGY BILL SIGNEP WASHINGTON, D. C. SOUNDPHOTO - President Truman signed the McMahon , atomic energy bill designed both to safeguard safe-guard the nation's secret and to adapt atomic power to uses of peace. The bill places atomic developments in the hands of an all-civilian 5-man commission. Truman, seated signing bill as members of Senate Atomic Energy Committee look on: L to R Senators Tom Connally, (D), of Texas; Eugene D. Milliken, (R)' of Conn.; Chairman Brien McMahon, (D), of Conn., author of measure; Warren R. Austin, (R), of Vt.; Richard B. Russell, (D) of Georgia. ' |