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Scientific Manpower

JUN 01, 1953
National Manpower Council Reports; Amendment of Reserve Act Proposed; Scientific Manpower Commission.
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A 263‐page document on the present scientific and professional manpower situation in the United States has been submitted to the White House by the National Manpower Council, a nonprofit survey group established two years ago at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business by General Eisenhower to provide a continuing appraisal of the nation’s manpower problems and policies in a period of enduring emergency. The Council was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Warning that “scientists and professional people cannot be stockpiled like commodities against future shortages”, the Council examined in detail the problems of providing sufficient engineers, physicists, teachers, and doctors to satisfy future requirements.

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