Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million defense contingency fund, to be spent as the President sees fit, so the real defense total is $40.3 billion, up $2.7 billion from the pre-Sputnik level. Missile procurement is listed for $600 million more, but aircraft procurement for $600 million less. Also up: nuclear submarines, research and development, construction of Strategic Air Command bases...
Died. Dr. Willis Rodney Whitney, 89, cheerful, kindly industrial scientist, founder and longtime (1900-32) director of General Electric's Research Laboratory; of a heart attack; in Schenectady. Drafted by G.E. from M.I.T. (where he developed the now accepted electrochemical theory of corrosion), Researcher Whitney set up the country's first industrial-research lab in a Schenectady barn, spurred on an alert crew of scientists (including William D. Coolidge, Irving Langmuir) to develop the modern electric-light bulb and turn out a wide assortment of major electronic discoveries...
...chemists synthesize new compounds or find more efficient ways of mass-producing old ones; every week, technologists put a few of them to use in industry or manufacture. A few of them, at least, are carcinogens (i.e., can cause cancer). The result, says Dr. Ivor Cornman in Cancer Research, is that the U.S. is "submerged in carcinogens, few of which we can recognize." Biologist Cornman, of the Hazleton Laboratories in Falls Church, Va., is not exercised about coal-tar derivatives used in dye-making, some oil products, chromate and uranium ore dusts: their hazards are recognized...
What Biologist Cornman wants to see is a concerted research effort to study everything in man's environment, on the chance that it would solve the riddle of many types of cancer for which the cause is still unknown. The project would resemble the mass screening, currently under way, of all substances now on chemists' shelves, in the hope of finding cures for cancer. A major difficulty: the job is so huge that it would keep hundreds of laboratories working full blast. With the chemists churning out so many new products, Dr. Cornman concedes: "We will have...
Monopoly on Brains. Under the leadership of this seasoned team. General Dynamics is heavily betting on research-or what Dr. Krafft Ehricke, Convair's astronautics expert, calls "wandering in the tomorrows"-to put it on top of the new atomic-space age. This year the company will invest $15 million in research into everything from desalting of sea water to astronautics. Though it can hope for no profit for years, it has sunk $15 million into its General Atomic Division for basic research rather than have it manufacture reactors that may soon be obsolete, thus hopes to develop better...