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Like almost everybody else, Vannevar Bush thinks of himself as essentially a man of peace. He regards himself as working at a disagreeable but necessary assignment. He refuses to be drawn into discussions as to the possibilities of OSRD inventions for the peace to come. OSRD's sole job, he considers, is to shorten the war. But one thing he would like to see continued after the war—something like OSRD. Says he, hammering his desk with his fist: "If we had been on our toes in war technology ten years ago, we would probably not have had this damn war."
* For strictly industrial research (materials, etc.), WPB has another agency, the Office of Production Research and Development.
* In one military field, aviation, U.S. research was well advanced, thanks to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,
† Last week President Roosevelt, while calling for review of the draft status of under-26 workers, promised the American Chemical Society that he would try to keep young scientists at their jobs.