SCIENCE AND THE PEACE

...Before the war, the nation was spending between $300,000,000 and $400,000,000 a year for research, about a fifth of it governmental...

...Federal research expenditures rose to $706,000,000 in 1044...

...At least 20 per cent of the annual research appropriations would be reserved for each of 3 fields: National defense, health and medical care, and basic sciences...

...Fund allocations and other actions would be approved by a National Science Board consisting of the director as chairman, 8 Presidentially appointed members at large, and the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, the Attorney General, and the head of the Federal Security Agency or their representatives...

...To protect the taxpayer's interest," the report states, "all research and development.j>rojects financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government should be undertaken only upon the condition that any invention or discovery resulting would become the property of the United States...

...Science And The Peace By WATSON DAVIS Director, Science Service Washington, D. C. TO aid the war-to-peace reconversion of scientific research and sustain the research and development necessary to national defense, health and medical care, industry, agriculture, and business, the Senate's Subcommittee on War Mobilization headed by Sen...

...Thus there would be a gap of from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 if we revert to the prewar rate of research...

...At least half of the funds would be earmarked for non-profit educational and research institutions...

...The National Science Foundation would be headed by a director appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate...

...Harley M. Kilgore, of West Virginia, recommended in a report last week that Congress create a National Science Foundation as an independent governmental agency...

...The proposed new central scientific agency of the Government would take up some of this gap through use of public funds as well as "coordinate all such federally supported research and development work, utilizing so far as possible the existing resources of public and private research organizations, particularly nonprofit educational institutions and research foundations...

...a 10-fold increase over 19"8...

...The foundation would grant without charge nonexclusive licenses to persons or organizations wishing to use any such invention, discovery, patent, or patent right...

...the report states, while the total research investment by private organizations and government was over $800,000,000...

...THE foundation would be empowered to grant fellowships and scholarships in various fields of science in order to "discover and develop scientific talent, particularly in American youth...

...The new foundation would not itself perform research and development work, but would make funds available to public and private organizations already equipped and staffed...