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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it really got down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
NACA's research director, Dr. George William Lewis, was proudest of a new wing developed during the past year. Approximately one-half the drag, i.e., the speed-killing characteristic, of the modern airplane is caused by its wings. Most of the wing drag is caused by air friction along the surface which, as the plane speeds through the air, changes from a smooth or laminar flow near the leading edge to a tumbling, churning turbulence farther back on the wing...
...Committee, established in 1932 to administer funds received mostly from the Rockefeller Foundation for research in the Social Sciences, has announced the following grants for this year...
Under grants totalling $16,642 awarded by the Committee on Research in the Social Sciences, members of the faculty during the coming year will investigate social security, labor, public administration, commedity distribution, prices, and other subjects in economics and sociology...
This distinct stressing of research is a unique approach to the problem of training men for government service, the primary educational end to which the School is dedicated. Since its student body is composed of highly-educated graduate students, there is little need for further formal instruction. They will benefit more from doing research on various problems and then discussing them with consultant experts in seminars. In this way the individual student gains much knowledge. Furthermore, by the publication of the results of its research, the School believes it will add to the general store of knowledge and further justify...