Bureau of the Budget

Division of Statistical Standards. Bureau of the Budget, Washington 25, D. C. 

WILLIAM D. CAREY is Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Publisher of SCIENCE Magazine. Previously, he was a vice-president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., following a long career in the Bureau of the Budget where he was Assistant Director with general responsibilities for federal science policy. 

The U.S. Bureau of the Budget publishes the SIC code and updates it about every 5 years. It defines SIC 28 as follows ... 

During the late spring and summer of 1959 the Bureau of the Budget worked on the study of the roles of federal agencies in radiation protection that Eisenhower had ordered. On 28 May it presented its preliminary analysis of the problem and proposed remedies to McCone and... 

Bureau of the Budget paper on organizational responsibilities for radiation protection, 28 May 1959, attachment to memorandum for the files of John A. McCone, 29 May 1959, File 2265 (Federal Radiation Council), McCone Office Files, AEC/DOE. 

JCAE, Hearings on Federal-State Relationships, pp. 485-488 Senate Calendar no. 896, Report no. 870, 1 Sept. 1959, Box 629, Anderson Papers William F. Finan to Elmer B. Staats, 8 July 1959, File R5-7 Series 52.1, Record Group 51 (Records of the Bureau of the Budget), National Archives. 

File F2-2, Record Group 51 (Records of the Bureau of the Budget), National Archives Elmer Staats to Frederick G. Dutton, 16 Feb. 1961, Chet Holifield to John F. Kermedy, 21 Feb. 1961, Mlliam D. Carey to Dutton, 12 June 1961, White House Central Files (FG 202, Atomic Energy Comrrussion), Kermedy Papers. 

Some records at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston are of importance. The White House Official File and the Ann Whitman File at the Eisenhower Library contain useful memoranda and correspondence on atomic energy and illuminate the close relationship between Lewis Strauss and the president. The White House Central Files and the President s Office Files at the Kennedy Library complement the records of the Bureau of the Budget and provide helpful documents on the often strained relations between the Joint Committee and the executive branch. Althouugh both libraries house valuable materials on military uses and promotion of peaceful applications of atomic energy, they have relatively little on regulatory issues. 

Note Industries as used here refers to the four-digit classification of subcategories within this industrial group employed by the Bureau of the Budget in 1957 (II, BOB, 1957, 76-82) see Appendix B. An industry is oligopolistic if six or fewer firms manufacture 50 per cent... 

BOB, 1957. U.S. Bureau of the Budget, Office of Statistical Standards, Technical Committee on Industrial Classification. Standard Industrial Classification Manual. Washington, D.C. U.S. Government Printing Office. 

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