Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experiments in Colorado date back to 1926. They were abandoned in 1929 as unnecessary when new petroleum reserves started coming in, were revived during the wartime oil shortage. At that time Congress appropriated $30 million for large-scale research in synthetic fuel. It seemed a good gamble; geologists estimate that U.S. shale reserves might yield 365 billion barrels of oil, enough to fill U.S. industrial needs for 180 years at the current rate of consumption...
...talk Fly criticized Harvard and Yale for not paying any attention to radio. Later he elaborated on this point, explaining that he felt that universities should undertake extensive research into all the problems of radio...
Chairman Jasper F. Crouse 1Ed. said yesterday that a committee of 26 is seeking contributions from each of the School's 248 students. Funds raised will help the Harvard Foundation for Advanced Study and Research in its drive to raise at least $1,000,000 toward the Center...
...looking forward to the Christmas rush season," complained Stadler as he answered an insistant ring. It was someone asking for Dr. Myers. "The National Research Foundation is Eliot 4-5400," explained Black as he left for Lamont...
Popularizing the symptoms of cancer--this the writer does well--and keeping the public up to date on research work are two very important jobs that modern scientific journalism must do. But the public must be competently informed; the average reader takes such romantic descriptions as the authoress has given and becomes convinced that he has his finger on the pulse of scientific progress...