Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant Navy Secretary Garrison Norton charged that a "dollar straitjacket" had "seriously hampered" missile research and development. As Norton told it, the Navy continually had to get approval from Comptroller McNeil to spend the skimpy R. & D. (research and development) funds voted by Congress. Asked the subcommittee's Counsel Edwin L. Weisl: What experts does McNeil have on his staff to advise him on R. & D. projects? Replied Norton: "None...
...candidate for director of the Defense Department's new Buck Rogers-minded Advanced Research Projects Agency: John A. McCone, California industrialist (shipbuilding) and onetime (1950-51) Under Secretary for Air. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's plan is that ARPA will take charge of such new weapons systems as anti-missile missiles and, possibly, satellites themselves before they become factors in interservice rivalry. With such a charter, the ARPA boss could easily evolve into a weapons czar without any fanfare...
...international research team (including Boston's Dr. Paul Dudley White and Minneapolis' Dr. Ancel Keys) pursued the relationship between different kinds of dietary fat and heart disease. They checked men living in Calabria and Crete, who get nearly all their fat from olive oil. Among 657 rural Cretans aged 45 to 65 there were only two with evidence of heart attacks. A similar sample of Americans, whose diet includes large amounts of animal fats, would show about 60 cases...
Allen could easily increase his budget for tropical fish and Oriental sculpture by following the path of so many of his colleagues: leaving low-paying Government work for high-paying private industry. But Harvey Allen (salary $16,000 a year) has no such plans. "I'm a research man," he says. "The NACA gives me freedom to work. I'm sticking with them...
...peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts to guard civilians against the health hazards of nuclear radiation. ¶Ultrasound vibrations (TIME, Dec. 2), already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second...