Administrative agencies

Shown during a visit to the NASA Langley Research Center are left to right: James E. Webb, NASA Administrator; Dr. Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of the U.S.; and Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. Also shown are Dr. Floyd L. Thompson (second from right), Langley Director, and Charles J. Donlan, Associate Director.

Senator John L. McClellan (Arkansas), center, holds a model plane during his visit to the 16 foot Transonic Wind Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research center. Left to right: James E. Webb, NASA Administrator; Senator McClellan; Dr. Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of the United States; and Charles J. Donlan, Associate Director of Langley. The woman at right is unidentified.

James E. Webb, head of NASA (left), shown with two members of the Board of Trustees of the Meridian House Foundation. See also 98-185.

Latest informal photo of Wilson W. Wyatt, former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, who is the new National Housing Administrator. From: Beth Gore.

Wilson W. Wyatt, who resigned as Housing Expediter, shown packing up at his office today following a press conference. Mr. Wyatt said that the housing emergency now is greater than ever and that demand for homes is just now reaching its peak. Mr. Wyatt resigned after President Truman had called for relaxation "as rapidly as possible" of Wyatt's controls on construction and home building. From: Beth Gore.

President Truman's new Housing Expeditor, Wilson W. Wyatt, shown at the new Silver Springs, Maryland housing project, where he made an on the spot inspection of the Federal Public Housing Exhibit. From: Beth Gore.

This trio holds the strings in postwar housing and reconversion, left to right: John Blandford, Administrator, National Housing Agency; Wilson Wyatt, Housing Expediter; John W. Snyder, Director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. From: Beth Gore

Wilson W. Wyatt, the new Federal House Expediter and former Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, unpacks his brief case in preparation to taking over his tough Washington job. From: Beth Gore.

United States Housing Expeditor Tighe E. Woods today told the House Banking Committee that the need to expand rent control stems from the nations new defense effort. He urged the committee to support a 24 month continuation of controls. The administration wants a stronger law, with authority to bring back under control areas that have previously freed. From: Beth Gore.

Tighe E. Woods, Federal Housing Administrator, shown as he testified on rent controls before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee today. Shortly after his testimony crowds of landlords swarmed in the rotunda of the Capitol and then stormed the offices of individual Senators. From Beth Gore. From: Beth Gore