Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generation's advance in science has been packed into the last three years. One agency alone, the Army & Navy's Office of Scientific Research and Development, is spending $100,000,000 a year on research. The scientists' job is considered so crucial that for the first time in U.S. military history a civilian scientist, OSRD's Director Vannevar Bush, now sits on the Army & Navy's war councils. The full story of Bush's scientists cannot be told until after the war. But Science at War tells a good deal...
...Methodist Church last week took the first step in a big project. From the Church's Manhattan headquarters went copies of a poster (see cut) painted by famed artist Howard Chandler Christy (Artist Christy is a Christian Scientist; his wife is a Methodist), which will eventually go up in the 42,000 U.S. Methodist churches. The poster summons members to participate in the Methodist Church's forthcoming Crusade for a New World...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...idea of joining a union appalls many a scientist and engineer. To a professional man this means not merely the surrender of his individual economic rights, to union leaders whom he frequently distrusts. It also means surrender of his self-esteem as an individualist. So most scientists and engineers have shunned C.I.O.'s union (Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists & Technicians) as well as A.F. of L.'s (International Federation of Technical Engineers, Architects & Draftsmen...
...scientists hoped to hand Ransom over to Martian colleagues for experimental purposes. In return, one scientist wanted Martian gold. The other wanted to study the possibilities of man's annexing Mars as a breeding ground for a race of new men. But Philologist Ransom escaped his captors...