required in a program for Federal aid 

 to, 79, 80; essentials of a program for 

 Federal aid, 80; recommended estab- 

 lishment of a National Research 

 Foundation to administer Federal aid, 

 80; Federal support of, in universi- 

 ties and nonprofit institutes recom- 

 mended, 80; components and nature 

 of, 81-83; development of, in U. S., 

 83-85; national (public and private) 

 expenditures for, 85-89; basic ele- 

 ments in a national policy for, 88-89; 

 in American universities and colleges, 

 90-98; operating costs for, related to 

 salaries of research staffs in univer- 

 sities and colleges and in industrial 

 research laboratories, 92-93; need to 

 assist colleges and universities with 

 operating costs, 93; recommended 

 forms of Government support in uni- 

 versities, 93-98; nature of, in the 

 Government and suggested reforms, 

 99-106; bearing of Federal income 

 tax upon expenditures for develop- 

 ment and, 110-111; recommended leg- 

 islative action on income-tax laws de- 

 signed to aid, 111-112; responsibility 

 of proposed National Research Foun- 

 dation to promote, 116; analysis of 

 expenditures for, by 125 universities 

 and colleges, and postwar needs, 122- 

 124; example of opposition to Federal 

 aid for, 124; detailed analysis of ex- 

 penditures for, in a small sample of 

 leading universities, industrial re- 

 search laboratories, and nonprofit sci- 

 ence institutes, 125-134. 



Stewart Committee on — 

 Effect of the war on, and need to re- 

 lease wartime-developed data as soon 

 as possible, 189-192. 



See also Research, basic. 



Research Board for National Security: es- 

 tablishment of, 33; recommended par- 

 ticipation of, in program to locate 

 and develop scientific talent in the 

 armed services, 140-141, 160. 



Research clinics, advantages to small busi- 

 ness, 107-108. 



Research facilities, scientific and technical: 

 NSF compilation of science policies 

 on Federal support of, xxiii; responsi- 

 bility of proposed National Research 

 Foundation to provide for, where in- 

 adequate, 116. 



Research in Action, Battelle Memorial In- 

 stitute, 86, note 3. 



Research institutes: NSF surveys of re- 

 search and development efforts of, 

 xxiii; Federal funds obligations for 

 basic research in, xxv; as centers of 

 basic research, 6, 12, 19, 20; ex- 

 penditures for scientific research, 6-7, 

 85-89; need for public funds to 



strengthen, 20; inadequacy of ex- 

 penditures for basic research by, 22; 

 fundamentals of public-funds support 

 of research in, 33; support of scien- 

 tific research in, as -function of pro- 

 posed National Research Foundation, 

 34, 37, 38, 39-40; role of the Govern- 

 ment to assist research in, 73, 74, 75, 

 101; achievements made by, 77; rec- 

 ommended grants to, for industrial 

 research and for fundamental re- 

 search, 108; reference to patent poli- 

 cies of, 117. 



Research workers, assistance to, as func- 

 tion of proposed National Research 

 Foundation, 117. 



Richards, A. N., member, Committee on 

 Publication of Scientific Information, 

 45, 188; chairman. Committee on 

 Medical Research, OSRD, 57; 

 quoted, on deficiency in funds of uni- 

 versities for medical research, 57. 



Rockefeller Foundation, 60, 84. 



Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 

 84, 86, note 6. 



Rodent control, 53. 



Rogers, Walter S., member, Committee on 

 Discovery and Development of Scien- 

 tific Talent, 45, 136. 



Roosevelt, President Franklin D.: letter to 

 Vannevar Bush from, requesting rec- 

 ommendations on means of scientific 

 advancements, 3-4; Dr. Bush's reply, 

 1-2; references to the President's let- 

 ter, 13-14, 54, 73, 77, 137, 142, 187, 

 189, 190, 192; letter to, from Dr. 

 Charles L. Parsons, quoted, on waste 

 of scientists in World War II, 159. 



Russia, recommendation for appointment 

 of scientific attaches at embassy in, 

 xiii-xiv. 



Russian sputnik, effects on activity of the 

 Government in scientific field, x, xxv. 



Ryerson Laboratory of the University of 

 Chicago, 140, 161. 



Scarlet fever, reduction in death rates 

 from, 54. 



Scholars, proposed means and procedures 

 for choosing, 180-185. See also Fel- 

 lows; Fellowships and scholarships. 



Scholarships: nonimplementation of pro- 

 posed program for, and substitutes 

 therefor, xvi; precautions necessary 

 not to syphon a disproportionate 

 amount of ability into science from 

 other fields through, 142-143; fellow- 

 ships, grants-in-aid and, as normal 

 means of developing leadership, 143; 



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