Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week, as his Un-American Activities Committee applied for a whopping, $200,000 allotment from the House, Thomas dug deep. What he fetched up was an old file on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards. The bureau is the Government's chief research agency in physics, mathematics, chemistry and engineering...
...Fred Astaire took a look at sister-in-law Adele's new mink coat and commiserated: "Too bad it isn't female." A little research on mink sex convinced Adele (Mrs. Kingman Douglass) that the skins of female minks really are more delicate and finer looking. "My sister-in-law wasn't unfriendly," she explained. "Her coat is more beautiful than mine, and . . . hers is female, mine. male. Now I hate mine and I'm going to have it cut up for lining a cloth coat...
...average age: 17) were the pick of 3,161 junior scientists, finalists in the annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. They were chosen after stiff science aptitude tests, and on the basis of recommendations from teachers, their scholastic records, and a 1,000-word essay on their private research (sample subject: Chemiluminescence of 3-aminophthalhydrazide). For two lucky ones, there were $2,400 college scholarships...
...Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets...
...first two, soon to be published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., will deal with medical aspects of the bomb research. The series will eventually cover everything from the technology of the voracious gas, fluorine (which gnaws holes in glass and makes bricks burn), to leak detectors for gas-tight rooms and compartments. The only information left out: the military supersecrets directly connected with the bomb and its atomic relatives...