Budget Message
MAR 01, 1954
DOI: 10.1063/1.3061576
ADDITIONAL BASIC RESEARCH, President Eisenhower told Congress, “is needed to build up the fund of knowledge on which will be based the development of new crops for agriculture, new methods of safeguarding health, new tools for industry, and new weapons. A further important result is the training which basic research projects provide for graduate students in our universities. The number of trained scientists graduating each year falls short of the needs of our growing economy and is still declining. Enlargement of the research program and the related fellowship program will help counteract this trend.”
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