Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting recession. President Eisenhower urged that businessmen do only ''what is clearly in their own interest." He called for "vigor and imagination in forging ahead with new and improved product developments and in product and market research." He asked business to show faith, not fear, in the U.S. economy by keeping inventories up to normal standards, by investing in needed plants and equipment...
...first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
...before the Sputnik many have come to overpraise it. Among the dozens of American, British and German scientists who have visited Russia in recent years, a sounder assessment is now emerging. "The Western scientific picture," concludes West German Biologist Arnold Buchholz, "shows a much more finely woven net of research themes, with a great number of high points, and a higher level of quality. Soviet science is marked by massive points of heavy concentration and a great difference in the level of quality...
Almost every university student is subsidized, and the freshly graduated physicist can count on making at least $200 a month, plus another $100 for research, which is good money in the land of the proletariat. The government thinks nothing of building whole "science cities," equipped modern villas, clubs, cinemas and stadiums for scientists. When an American asked Physicist Vladimir Vekser how much his huge accelerator at Dubna cost, Veksler replied simply: "I don't know. To get the money, all we had to say was that you had one." If the Soviet scientist lives in an ideological cage...
...This gift, it seems to me, has a two fold significance," Mr. Pusey said. "It provides substantial funds to reinforce the national effort in basic scientific research and teaching at a time when this is badly needd, and it also recognizes a new principle in educational philanthropy--that sizable funds for capital, as well as the more familiar short-term grants for specific purposes, must be made available to our colleges if they are to continue responding effectively to the demands of our society...