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include considerable technical detail, so that they serve some of the purpose 

 of an STR. The decision as to the content of the NDRC volumes v^^as left 

 to the divisions concerned, subject to a check by the Office of the Chairman 

 of NDRC as to security and public relations. 



Conant delegated to Chadwell the responsibility for seeing that this was 

 done. After the latter's resignation as Deputy Executive Officer of NDRC 

 in April 1946, Farinholt looked after this activity with assistance from Miss 

 Winifred Gosline. Chadwell, as Conant's personal deputy, continued to take 

 an interest in the project, and presided at a two-day meeting the end of 

 August, at which time members of the staff of the Chairman's Office dis- 

 cussed the manuscripts with respect to public relations. 



By early November, when the manuscripts of nearly all the volumes were 

 in the hands of the publishers, NDRC was relieved of further responsibility. 

 Shordy before that time John S. Burlew, formerly Technical Aide of 

 Division i, had been appointed a Special Assistant to the Director to re- 

 view the volumes and advise him as to their content. Then on Farinholt's de- 

 parture Burlew was designated by the Director to handle on the latter's 

 behalf all remaining matters relating to the publishing of the "long history," 

 except those within the purview of the contracting officer. 



5. Official Government Popular Scientific Releases. These were the re- 

 ports issued by the Joint Board on Scientific Information Policy mentioned 

 earlier. The Committee on Publications was cognizant of, but had no juris- 

 diction over, those releases. 



6. Contractors' Reports. As a result of widespread declassification, a sub- 

 stantial number of contractors' reports became available for such public use 

 as the supply would permit. In addition to the distribution to the Publica- 

 tion Board in the Department of Commerce and to the National Archives, 

 OSRD was able in several important instances to collect up to twenty sets 

 of these papers and deliver them to the Library of Congress for distribu- 

 tion to key libraries throughout the country. As a rule, OSRD also furnished 

 the Librarian of Congress with a suggested distribution list which, how- 

 ever, was only advisory. Though many of these reports were ephemeral, 

 they constitute a substantial addition to the scientific literature of the 

 Nation, and their availability in many regional libraries is distinctly advan- 

 tageous. 



Science — The Endless Frontier 



One OSRD publication deserves special mention here. On November 17, 

 1944, President Roosevelt sent Bush a letter asking for recommendations 

 on the following four major points: 



First: What can be done, consistent with military security, and with the prior 

 approval of the military authorities, to make known to the world as soon as pos- 



