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...Vannevar Bush, wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development-and an optimist who tries to grow potatoes among New Hampshire's rocks-tore into Osborn's gloomy theories. His main point: population increases, all right, but the world's living standard increases first. When "a lid is removed," both science and population burst upward, "but science gets there first." This is followed by a leveling off at a higher standard. "And thus," said Bush...
Faith in man's ability to supply his needs through science--in spite of the world's depleting natural resources and increasing population--was expressed by a panel manned by Vannevar Bush, president of Carnegie Institution of Washington, Frank W. Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton, Fairfield Osborne, president of the Conservation Foundation, Robert P. Russell, director of the International Basic Economy Corporation, and Sir Henry Tizard, British production expert...
...output of Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
Four hundred faculty members at Massachusetts Institute of Technology were hastily convened to hear the news. President Karl T. Compton, 61, was leaving for a new job after 18 years: he would succeed Vannevar Bush as boss of the nation's military research organization, the Research and Development Board. Faculty members, some with tears in their eyes, rose to salute Compton after he made the announcement. Then Compton introduced his 44-year-old successor, Dr. James R. Killian...
...knows all this better than the man who led U.S. science to war: Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. But Dr. Bush is hopeful that things are changing. In the first issue of Physics Today, he declares that U.S. science is now putting less emphasis on "practical" work and digging intofundamentals...