xiv INTRODUCTION 



conditions under which the great majority of our population 

 must labor, and the security of the nation will thus depend, in 

 large and increasing measure, on the attention we devote to the 

 promotion of scientific and industrial research. The purpose 

 of this book is therefore to describe the part played by science 

 in the war with special reference to the future development and 

 utilization of research on a scale commensurate with the needs 

 of the United States. 



