RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 323 



Committee on Sensory Devices 7 



Special agreements, e.g., space, overhead 16 



Well over 5700 supplements had been executed 



to these 2515 contracts by the same date. 



The submission of formal requests from the Services for OSRD assistance 

 is not a proper index of the w^ork done for them as many projects were 

 initiated by OSRD with part, but not all, of them later covered by Service 

 request, and for the further reason that requests varied widely in their scope 

 and the magnitude of effort required to meet them. Because of the way in 

 which CMR work originated, there is no ready method of tabulating Service 

 interest in the origin of its programs. The records of the project control 

 section, however, show the following distribution by origin of project re- 

 quests accepted by NDRC: 



1397 



The records also show that 231 Service requests were not accepted by 

 NDRC. While many of these were declined because of competing demands 

 for manpower, or because they did not appear possible of completion in 



