Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bible in Widener is of value mainly as an exhibition piece, not for scholarly research. Accurate facsimiles, costing about $500 each, are used instead of the few remaining originals whenever a research project is undertaken...
...fastest fighter on view in the 1947 displays was (Jane's thinks) the YAK-17, a single-jet plane which looks something like Republic's Thunderjet. Probable maximum speed of the YAK-17: around 650 m.p.h. Jane's also reports a "research" plane of German design with a maximum speed of nearly 685 m.p.h. This is probably the plane which the Russians claim has passed the sonic barrier...
...Russian counterproposal also calls for international control and inspection, but it contains a number of sharp little gimmicks: 1) atomic energy research and production facilities for "peaceful purposes" would be owned by individual nations; 2) inspection would be only "periodic," confined to plants, mines, etc. that have been declared officially by the government which controls them; 3) the international body would merely make recommendations to the Security Council on how to deal with offenders, thus subjecting enforcement to the veto...
...Bucky three years ago incorporated himself as the nonprofit (and taxexempt) Fuller Research Foundation. Businessmen may sneer at Bucky, but artists are more sympathetic. Last week 91 Chicago artists (most of them young abstractionists) contributed their paintings, sculptures and photographs to a Chicago art auction that raised $700 for Bucky...
...equipment and the more spacious laboratories. For himself he asks little. By taking advantage of the unusually liberal Rutgers policy in such financial matters, he might have claimed all the proceeds of his discovery and become a millionaire. But he turned over his royalty rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation with the mild observation: "Rutgers won't let me starve...