Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the U. S. the alert Bowman went into the coffee-roasting business, impulsively sold out when it occurred to him that candy lozenges like Life Savers would be a great success if flavored with coffee. Intending to work out his idea at the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh, he was surprised to learn that it had been tried before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher...
...world." In 1936, the Foundation gave away $11,300,000. It cooperated financially with 130 agencies, in amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included 41 local and national governments, 44 educational institutions, 20 research institutes, two libraries...
...Harvard's Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory got $4,000 for research with small sounding balloons equipped with automatic radio...
...ousted from academic posts in Germany by the Nazis. Most of them were Jews, partly Jewish, or married to Jewesses; some were pure "Aryans" who could not stomach the Nazi ideology. By the end of 1936 the Rockefeller Foundation had given a total of $532,000 to universities and research institutions on behalf of 151 of these scholars, most of whom have found permanent posts outside Germany...
...embarrassed, he sold his bird collection, which had cost him $1,000,000, to the American Museum of Natural History for $500,000. He kept his moth and butterfly collection of 1,500,000 specimens. The Rothschild title passes to his 26-year-old nephew, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge...