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From 1955 through 1965, Karo directed the Survey. In 1957, Karo oversaw an organization with a $ 10-million budget, 17 ships and 2,000 employees. In that same year, the Survey's publications list offered over 2,000 aerial and nautical maps and guides; and over 44 million of its documents were
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347:"To Rear Admiral H. Arnold Karo, USC&GS -- with best wishes and great appreciation of the assistance of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in making possible the above scene."
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just before he left the Coast and
Geodetic Survey to help create a new government agency which would eventually merge the Survey with two other formerly independent agencies.
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Standards, republished on National Geodetic Survey web site and the Federal Register (Doc. 59-5442, Filed, June 30, 1959, 8:45 a.m.)
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during this period, but he returned to the Coast and
Geodetic Survey as with the rank of rear admiral (see photo caption) at the end of the war.
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Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1955. The recess appointment was subsequently made permanent by Senate confirmation.
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which is slightly longer at approximately 1,609.347 219 meters (1 international mile is exactly 0.999 998 survey mile).
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for an outstanding contribution in an engineering or scientific field – is named for Karo.
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From 1965, until his retirement in 1967, he was the deputy administrator of the
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Karo had been involved in the Survey since 1923, but the advent of
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Karo was transferred from the Coast and
Geodeic Survey to the
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Science Services Administration Corps admirals
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presented annually as a group award to a field unit of the
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Science Services Administration (ESSA) Corps
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United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
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in World War II, when he was commanding officer of the
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United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps admirals
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259:, which provided coastal maps and charts for the
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169:1945–1965 (Coast and Geodetic Survey Corps)
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578:Refinement of values for the yard and the pound,
318:named Rear Admiral Karo to succeed Rear Admiral
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629:James C. Tison, Jr.
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78:Succeeded by
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420:Later years
391:survey feet
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66:Preceded by
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570:References
538:Astin, V.
445:Karo Award
314:President
151:Air Forces
104:1903-12-24
292:St. Louis
60:1955–1965
56:In office
542:(1959).
367:distance
326:issued.
296:Missouri
233:Cold War
340:Admiral
304:colonel
195:Colonel
540:et al.
363:length
197:(Army)
187:(ESSA)
459:Notes
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176:Rank
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