SCRIPPS of the Scripps Oceanographic Institution were made avail- 

 able to the laboratory as experimental ships „ 



Due to the urgency of its work Section C-4 did not confine 

 itself to research at the two central laboratories, but reached 

 out through numerous contracts to employ the research facil- 

 ities and personnel of numerous university and industrial lab- 

 oratories,, In Cambridge^, Massachusetts, the physicists of 

 Harvard and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had 

 been working under contract with the Navy and the National De- 

 fense Research Committee on problems closely allied to those 

 of anti-submarine warfare „ 



On June 5, 1941 a contract was entered into with Harvard 

 University for the establishment of the Harvard Underwater Sound 

 Laboratory j, of which Professor F. V. Hunt was designated tech- 

 nical director., 



Numerous other contracts were entered into of which only 

 a few can be listed here, Among the contractors were the: 

 General Electric Company; Bell Telephone Laboratories; Gulf 

 Research and Development Company; RCA Manufacturing Company, 

 Inc „ ; Goodyear Aircraft Corporation; California Institute of 

 Technology; Armour Research Foundation; Westinghouse Electric 

 Corporation; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; American 

 Can Company; Sangamo Electric Company; Newark College of Engi- 

 neering; Electrical Engineering and Manufacturing Corporation; 

 Leeds and Northrup Company; and the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic 

 Research of the University of Iowa, 



At the first formal meeting of Section C-4 on 11 June 1941, 

 the program^ prepared by-. Mr, Shea and Dr , Knudsen for the two 

 central laboratories were considered and approved,, The programs 

 were substantially those which had previously been outlined,. 



Staff Members , 



The staff of the Fulton Street office of Section C-4 In- 

 cluded Dr Tate and Dr, Colpitts, In addition, there were 

 several technical aides. Among the technical aides who served 

 the Division and Section for longer or shorter periods were 

 Elmer Hutchisson„ L« G, Straub, L, F„ Morehouse, R, He Bolt, 

 R, Co Hopgood, Ao G, Anderson, Otto Wantuch, Dorothy Lasky, 

 A, Wo Barrus, David Keppel, and Laurence A, Moyer, who had 

 barely been appointed when he lost his life In a test of un- 

 derwater flares. 



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