| Show 1 colle college 9 e research given credit for speeding building trades trad es washington prospects of a 15 per cent increase in residential construction in 1940 over 1939 add significance to the con trib ution made to the building industry by research laboratories tories of american colleges and universities during the past decade these research activities have made it possible to get more for each building dollar and effect economies of about on the nations nation ts B annual home construction bill ac I 1 cording to a survey by the national I 1 home ome builders bureau 0 the survey attaches more than ordinary significance to the value of new discoveries by technicians in institutions of higher learning al only a comparatively small portion of the money expended on industrial research is available to campus chemists physicists I 1 and technical experts their contribution to ec economic 0 recovery has been far greater thin than generally realized the report stated farmer aided by research the work done by agricultural colleges and university experimental groups in aiding the farmer is perhaps more widely recognized modern ern methods of crop rotation more diversified use of farm products intensified fied ways of cultivation have all benefited from the activities in campus laboratories |
