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them to radio managements, and oversee the appropriation of funds. On 1 October 1976, the two radio stations merged to form Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Hoover's radio conferences played a key role in the organization, development, and regulation of radio broadcasting. Hoover also helped pass the Radio Act of

abolished in 2002 and replaced by a new radio service, called the Middle East Radio Network or Radio Sawa, with an initial budget of $22 million. Radio Sawa

Southwestern Power Administration. In the late 1930s Rayburn and Ellis were able to secure dams in Denison, TX and Norfork, AR in separate independent projects

maker Medtronic also started business in the Twin Cities in 1949. The nonprofit Mayo Clinic, which was founded in 1864 in Rochester, grew to become one of the

Coast Survey in 1836 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878—in the United States Department of the Treasury. In 1901, in response to a

articles for four years in a row. The program was later expanded to 30-second radio spots that were aired on more than 700 radio stations nationwide. The joint

oldest, founded in 1521; the next earliest settlements are San Germán in 1570, Coamo in 1579, Arecibo in 1614, Aguada in 1692 and Ponce in 1692. Increased

300 stations in operation worldwide in 1945, only 60 remained in 1949. A large number of AFN stations continued broadcasting from American bases in Europe

students in the nation with 126,078 students in the 2009–10 school year. Oklahoma spent $7,755 for each student in 2008, and was 47th in the nation in expenditures

Hill in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom, which was, according to BBC News in 2007, the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. Planned in 1954

The disaster resulted in 6 deaths and was the costliest tornado in the United States in 2022, with $220 million in damages. In May 2022, the Iowa Wing

over the U.S. Armed Forces is established in Article II in the Constitution whereby the president is named as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy

segregation in public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Oak Ridge High School in 1955 became the first school in Tennessee

was established in 1852. Massachusetts is home to the oldest school in continuous existence in North America (The Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645)

submarine, the USS Nautilus. In 1949, the federal research facility was established as the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS). In 1975, the United States

complete human remains found in North America, were discovered in Washington in the 1990s. The region has been home to many established tribes of indigenous peoples

American Marines proceeded in stages from segregated battalions in 1942, to unified training in 1949, and finally full integration in 1960. The Marine Corps

having posted in it in November 2018. In July 2020, the Trump administration dispatched federal officers to Portland, Oregon, during protests in the city following

Department of Defense. Established in 1830 as the Depot of Charts and Instruments, it is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States, and