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Show Industrial Research : Laboratories Shaping Future 'American Way' New Products, Processes Mean Jobs, Better Living Jobs, Incomes and more, better and cheaper goods and services for the new era which America is now entering will depend to a large extent ex-tent upon scientific research. The radio, television, chemical, plastic, automobile and many other industries indus-tries are direct tangible benefits of industrial research. The television industry, for example, has spent more than 20 million dollars, on research re-search and it is expected to provide pro-vide for more than 350,000 new jobs which never existed before. Other new products and services which may be expected now include: in-clude: Aviation type gasoline for automobiles automo-biles at no extra cost. Factory made houses with standardized stand-ardized parts but put together according ac-cording to the owner's design. Moth-resistant and non-shrinkable wool fabrics treated at the factory with special chemicals. Transparent window screens that will roll up like a shade. Windows of polarized glass through which the flow of light can be regulated by turning a button. Sulfa drugs, penicillin and other new healing aids, plentiful and at costs that can be met by all. Thousands of familiar prewar achievements will be obsolete. Automobiles, Auto-mobiles, radios, washing machines, refrigerators and similar products will be so greatly Improved that customers will want the new products prod-ucts even though their old ones are not worn out. This will provide thousands of new jobs in existing industries in addition to those created cre-ated by new industries. 'Atomic Age' Coming. American industry engages not only in applied research but contributes con-tributes heavily to fundamental research re-search pioneering new knowledge in chemistry, physics and other sciences. sci-ences. "Atomic bombs would not have been possible except for the experimentation experi-mentation in atom smashing to which industrial corporations contributed con-tributed funds, talent and new technological tech-nological equipment over a period of several years. The application of atomic energy to peacetime products prod-ucts will come eventually. Between the two World Wars, Industrial In-dustrial research in the United States grew almost tenfold, from an expenditure of 2.9 million dollars in 1920 to 23.4 million dollars in 1940, While indications point to industrial research growing faster in the next decade than ever before, the shortage of technical personnel to staff laboratories will be a serious handicap. Availability of funds will be another an-other important factor in the growth of research. Decline in income from endowments has made educational and research foundations increasingly increas-ingly dependent upon contributions by industry." j An Early Start With the Old Scatter gan y ' -i r-, wry-vj .;ri oZs vv iX f " Although only 11 years old, Joe Morrison of Pleasant Island, Me., Is already an accomplished fisherman and a fair hand with a rifle. This fall he is taking up the shotgun under his father's coaching. The elder Morrison, who operates a sportsman's camp, has been taking Joe along on hunting and fishing trips since the boy was a toddler. |