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This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...
...Landon School, thought the notion "a little leftist" at first, but came around fast when he saw the kind of leaders who would preside at Romford's salons. Among them: Utah's Senator Elbert Thomas, Kaiser-Frazer's Joseph Frazer, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Scientist Vannevar Bush, ex-Supreme Court Justice James McReynolds, Connecticut's Governor Raymond Baldwin, China's U.N. Delegate Quo Taichi...
...London doctors last month warned industrial scientists that they were playing with fire; OSRD's Vannevar Bush also warned a House committee that amateur attic experiments with radioactive energy might "sterilize, perhaps, all the passers...
...committee, to be headed by the Secretary of State, also includes Dr. Vannevar Bush, Major-General Leslle R. Groves, and John J. McCloy. Bush, President Conant, and Major-General Groves were the three men who supervised and directed the development of atomic energy during...
...Manhattan project were hundreds of creators and hundreds of others who helped make the creation possible. But all of them, by the very nature of the project, were workers in bits & pieces. Some of their names had become household words: Major General Leslie R. Groves and Dr. Vannevar Bush, the administrators; Drs. Compton and Fermi, the physicists; Drs. Urey and Lawrence, the atom crackers; and Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, sometimes called "the smartest of the lot," who assembled the first bomb in New Mexico's desert fastness...