Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each million-dollar laboratory will employ about 200 workers on research projects. The Department has already announced Civil Service examinations for 25 chemists to serve as project leaders. Sites were chosen, the Secretary tactfully explained, near other scientific and industrial experimenters in order to provide a "stimulus to creative thinking." Deadline for starting work on all four projects: end of this fiscal year (June 30 next...
...relieved of his tasks as Administrator to head the revamped Bureau of Agriculture Economics. Economist Albert G. Black, an energetic, 42-year-old idea man, was given Marketing & Regulation. Promoted to head new divisions were Soil Conserver H. H. Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose father used to read him Wallace's Farmer by kerosene lamp, with special emphasis on Uncle Henry's Sabbath School lessons...
...need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory leads to a crippling of experimental research is ... a denial of the whole history of modern physics. From Copernicus and Kepler on, all the great figures in Western science have insisted, in deed or in word, upon the futility of experimental research divorced from theory...
Tending to support Mr. Hazelett's ideas last week was a survey made by the Tax Research Institute of America at the request of the Senate committee. Sample findings: 82½% of firms questioned would expand if tax laws provided deductions or credits for expansion; such expansion would cause 74% of these firms to increase employment...
Cancer of the lung was formerly considered rare, but in the last 20 years it has increased steadily, not only in the U. S., but in Canada, England, Germany. Before he died last June, Dr. Philip B. Matz, U. S. Veterans' Administration research chief, examined 138 clinical and post-mortem records from the veterans' hospitals to find out where lung cancer came from and how long it was going to be here...