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...Umbaugh experiment is being financed by Tom Slick, millionaire oilman, cattleman and inventor (TIME, Jan. 28, 1946), through his Foundation for Applied Science at the Essar (short for Scientific Research) Ranch. When the project was formally unveiled there last week, Foundation Director Dr. Harold Vagtborg optimistically gloated that it might be possible "to convert all cattle herds into registered stock of the finest quality in a single generation...
Nichols raised $500,000 from merchants, manufacturers and civic leaders, started with an abandoned firehouse, later bought five buildings and a 160-acre experimental lot. Harold Vagtborg was hired away from the Armour Research Foundation to head Midwest, and his staff of physicists, chemists, engineers soon had a list of impressive achievements...
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