Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to "U.C.L.A.'s Dixon Wecter" calls for a word of correction. I meet a seminar on that campus one afternoon a week one term a year, but my main job is at the Huntington Library, where for the past two years I have been Chairman of Research. Whatever dubious credit arises from possession thus belongs mostly to the Huntington...
...biggest oversnow airborne maneuver in Army history, the climax of "Exercise Snowdrop," latest in the Army's continuing research into the best way of fighting an Arctic war (others: Task Forces Frigid, Frost, Williwaw in Alaska, Wisconsin and the Aleutians). The jump was made by 500 men of the 505th Airborne Battalion Combat Team, a unit of the Army's famed 82nd Airborne Division...
Ever since the end of the war, a steady stream of reports on German research has flowed into U.S. industry. Last week the Office of Technical Services offered more such "reparations": microfilms of documents prepared by German scientists themselves. Packed with detailed drawings, research results, minutes of technical meetings, the microfilms contain the compressed know-how of Germany's famed and closemouthed industries. Eventually they will cover the whole range of German research, from synthetic fuels to plastic dental fillings. Price of the first film (wartime developments in aluminum processing...
Bomb Dropped. Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves, boss of the wartime atomic bomb project and now head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, will become research head of Remington Rand, Inc. when he retires from the Army this month. His new job was broadly described as "including applications of physics, chemistry, electronics, plastics and photography...
Oppenheimer declared that the chief contribution of technology lies in the tools of research it provides and not in the demands it makes upon science...