Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total annual research budget for all U.S. universities before the war was some $30 million-peanuts compared to the $135-175 million the military are now prepared to spend. Both the Army & Navy, spurred by the results derived from the work of such theorists as Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford et al., are thoroughly sold on fundamental science. They are building cyclotrons and betatrons, signing up astronomers, chemists, physiologists, botanists, branching out into such unmilitary studies as meteors, the rare earths and plant cells...
...departure highlighted a-general trend in Washington: many another able man had left since the end of the war, and for the same reason (Oscar Cox, Albert Browning, Abe Fortas, Daniel W. Bell, et aL). Congress was making motions towards raising its own salaries. The same would soon have to be done for administrative offices...
...Breather? In Washington, worried Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles came up with an idea, tried it out on unenthusiastic Harry Truman, then hurried off to try to sell it to Labor Bosses Phil Murray, Bill Green, et al. The idea: let the C.I.O. and A.F.L. chiefs agree to recommend to their memberships that the U.S. have a year of industrial peace. Bowles asked them to say, in effect: "Brothers, now is the time to keep our feet on the ground and get production going against inflation; let's keep working and lay off any new wage demands except those already...
...directly on the atom bomb. When the serpent of necessity hissed, the men and the woman who bit into the apple of scientific good & evil bore different names: Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Dr. Leo Szilard, Dr. H. C. Urey, Dr. Niels Bohr, Dr. J. R. Oppenheimer, et al. The woman was Dr. Lise Meitner, a German refugee...
...imagism, a simple doctrine requiring poetry to be exact rather than mushy. The new little magazine Poetry, founded in 1912, fought to make verse exact as well as free. Vachel Lindsay, T. S. Eliot and others were published first in Poetry. When Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, H. D. et al. won, by the end of the decade, it was easier to admit the mild merit of rendering Uncle Alfred as, perhaps...