Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boss Ket." For Kettering, that invention eventually led to a place as head of the General Motors Research Corp., a vice president's title, a seat on the G.M. board and a fortune estimated at $33 million. For the next 48 years he kept probing, testing-often failing. But his successes included quick-drying paint, chrome metal, ethyl gasoline, a two-cycle diesel engine for locomotives-and more than 100 others...
Back from a one-week official visit to Russia, Sir John Cockcroft, in charge of research for Britain's Atomic Energy Authority, reported that the Russians are working hard on the problem of controlled fusion. He estimated that the situation is about "level pegging" between the Russians on one side, the British and Americans on the other. The Russians have an experimental machine which is virtually the twin of Britain's famous Zeta. But they built it in six months, while Britain needed two years. They have also constructed a "mirror machine," a U.S. specialty which is another...
...with New Synthetics. The cure "for some of the industry's ills," says Indian Head's Robison, "might be compounded from more aggressive, imaginative policies in research, production, control and marketing." The industry has already started to follow such a prescription...
...reason for calm, Bauer maintained, is that the emphasis on motivational research has resulted in knowledge that has benefited the persuaded as well as the persuader. "It can be argued that the consumer is now harder to reach than ever," he said...
Doty noticed "a distinct segregation" of teaching and research men. Moscow University is not a research center in the sense of M.I.T. or Harvard," he explained. "The Moscow researchers are in a self-contained Institute ten miles away...