Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister of State Guy Mollet was assigned to head a task force to simplify the structure of French municipal government...
...testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
...ever went to Harvard. Serenely oblivious to the Malthusian truth that Harvard men beget sons who go to Harvard, and that a long, geometric progression of begats had already outbegotten his best efforts to catch up. Historian Sibley set to work. He was confident, he wrote, that although his research might turn up "cases of iniquity which may have escaped punishment," it would nevertheless show the "worth and influence" of Harvard graduates...
Though they are in the minority, the bears are sticking to their thesis that the current market rise is only temporary. "Current stock prices are higher in relation to earnings than at any time since 1946," said Harry D. Comer, chief of research for Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis. "What the stock market is going on is a large amount of hope...
Space & Atoms. What saved the company in the postwar planemaker's famine was the same thing that made it grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...