SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Vor. 2.) OCTOBER, 1920.. _ [No. 10. 
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Training Specialists for Industry. 
ia) N arresting feature of the movement which is being 
0) energetically developed in Great Britain for the linking up 
G of science with industry is the difficulty experienced in 
obtaining suitable officers to carry out scientific research. 
An important branch of the work of the Department of Scientific and 
Tndustrial Research is to encourage the organization of research associa- 
tions for the immediate benefit of industries which are not under 
State management. To achieve this object, grants-in-aid are made 
under certain conditions and under articles approved by the Board of 
Trade. 
Very little in the way of propaganda was needed to convince the 
various industries of the wisdom or of the urgency of establishing the 
machinery by which the various scientifie problems which hinder . 
economic development might be vigorously attacked. War had done 
all that was necessary in this direction. The dislocation of foreign 
trade revealed, in a flash, the dependence of Great Britain upon foreign 
countries for the supply of numerous commodities vital to the main- 
tenance of her integrity. The manufacture of many of these had 
passed to alien hands, not because of any economic advantage which 
the countries enjoyed, but solely because of their adoption of more 
scientifie methods. ~ rae 3 hy 
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