Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful flight, which the Air Force had hoped to keep secret. The significant security point was that the other nations already had pictures showing the XS-1's straight-wing design; the Air Force had unwarily released them twelve months ago. Much U.S. supersonic research-and presumably that of other nations-had been centered on a swept-back design (i.e., wings slanted backward from the fuselage). The effect of publication was to tell all other nations and potential enemies: forget the swept-back design; as of now, at least, the straight wing...
...world's busiest scientist, the U.S. Government, has more arms than a Hindu goddess. Last week President Truman set up a central committee (the Interdepartmental Committee for Scientific Research and Development) to make all the scientific arms work in concert. Chairman is John R. Steelman, the President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government...
Higher education "must be vested with public purpose." Thus, even research "should be devoted to the general, not the individual, welfare. . . . Old distinctions between education for living and education for making a living must be discarded. American colleges and universities can no longer consider themselves merely an instrument for producing an intellectual elite; they must become the means by which every citizen . . . is enabled and encouraged to carry his education, formal and informal, as far as his native capacities permit...
There was one bright spot for men of good will-including the scientists, who prefer to work on something less disastrous to mankind: much of what was learned at Camp Detrick about spreading airborne infections can be applied to curing peacetime ills. Their equipment is now being adapted for research on the common cold...
...same meeting (of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association) heard an announcement of new support for the fight against degenerative diseases: the Pharmaceutical-Medical Research Foundation, formed by the drug-makers and the A.M.A. Next year the foundation will spend $250,000, largely contributed by the pharmaceutical industry. Most of the money will go to institutions already at work on research in this field...