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within the OSRD. This included making recommendations regarding the 

 flow of personnel among projects within OSRD, serving as a center of in- 

 formation for OSRD and its contractors with reference to scientific person- 

 nel, handhng relations with the Selective Service system and all deferment 

 requests made on behalf of contractors' personnel and OSRD personnel, 

 promoting stabilized compensation of scientific personnel, and recommend- 

 ing effective utilization of facilities for advanced training of personnel with 

 general scientific background to fit them for work in fields where there 

 were serious shortages of experienced scientific personnel. The third func- 

 tion was to advise the Director and to execute his instructions on general 

 policy and procedures relating to the recruitment, evaluation, training, 

 allocation, compensation, and requests for deferment of scientific personnel. 

 Bailey succeeded Hogan as Chief of SPO in March 1944. By January i, 

 1945, the Scientific Personnel Office had a detailed record of over 13,000 

 scientific and technical personnel who had contacted the office either by 

 correspondence or in person. Persons on this list were assisted in obtaining 

 commissions in the armed forces, assignments as noncommissioned officers 

 or other grades, civilian positions in the armed forces, teaching positions in 

 schools and colleges (including the United States Military Academy), and 

 positions with contractors of OSRD. This work was performed under the 

 supervision of Miss Sandy X. Demou. 



Salaries of Scientific Personnel 



One matter to which a great deal of attention was given was that of 

 salaries for scientific personnel. The "no-profit-no-loss" principle adopted by 

 NDRC and followed by OSRD was not easy to apply in the case of salaries 

 paid by academic contractors. There was no particular problem in connec- 

 tion with salaries paid by industrial contractors as personnel working on 

 OSRD contracts were merely a part of the total organization, and the sal- 

 aries paid to them conformed to the pattern of the organization. 



The original position of NDRC in the matter of reimbursement of 

 salaries paid to regular staff members of academic institutions was that the 

 time devoted by the individual to work on an NDRC contract was diverted 

 from that which he normally would spend in peacetime research and conse- 

 quently should not be the occasion for compensation by the Government 

 either to him or to the institution. As academic enrollment dropped due to 

 the drafting of students into the Army, and as staff members devoted more 

 and more time to work on NDRC contracts, it was recognized that this 

 policy was inequitable. Accordingly, the policy was modified and the con- 

 tracting institutions were authorized to claim reimbursement for the time 

 of staff members spent on NDRC contracts. CMR adhered to the original 

 NDRC policy for approximately a year after it had been abandoned by 



