Word: vannevar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's Associate Professor (now Commander) Howard H. Aiken, with the assistance of engineers of International Business Machines Corp., which built the machine and presented it to Harvard last week. Its calculating versatility is much greater than that of the even more complicated differential analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and associates at M.I.T. (TIME, Nov. 29), which merely solves intricate differential equations...
...project, suggested in TIME'S recent cover story (April 3, see cut) on Dr. Vannevar Bush, director of the war-born Office of Scientific Research and Development, derives from OSRD's extraordinary effectiveness in World War II. Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of the Navy Forrestal appointed the "Committee on Postwar Research" which last week began to draft plans for the new agency. The committeemen have all been active in OSRD...
...Department of Agriculture had begun to experiment with DDT, got such sensational results that the Surgeon General's office and Dr. Vannevar Bush's OSRD launched a full-scale investigation, soon uncovered DDT's immense military possibilities...
Your story (TiME, April 3) of Dr. Vannevar Bush and his 6,000 silent scientists is superb. Whether or not so intended, your record of these men, achieving magnificently yet anonymously and without personal credit or special compensation, is tongued with biting censure -for politicians who live and breathe for favorable headlines, businessmen who make profits prerequisite to patriotism, and every mother's son among us who thinks a ten-billion-dollar tax bill an excessive burden. The 6,000 give one a lift. Could they be bureaucrats...
...Vannevar Bush, general of the U.S. army of war scientists (TIME, April 3), last week was one of the most anxious of the war. It looked as if the under-26 draft might take a vital section of his army away from him. As a good soldier, Dr. Bush made no public outcry. But outcry there was aplenty from the nation's scientists...