SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL MOBILIZATION HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 702 A BILL TO MOBILIZE THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL 84949 PART 1 MARCH 30, 1943 Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1943 CONTENTS Hon. Thurman Arnold, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States in Charge S. 702, 78th Cong., 1st sess., a bill to mobilize the scientific and technical resources of the Nation__ Statement of John W. Walker before the Senate Committee on Patents regarding the activities of General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. with respect to the development of the fluorescent lighting industry, sub- mitted by Hon. Thurman Arnold_ Statement of Hon. Thurman Arnold regarding the Standard Oil Co. and the development of synthetic rubber... Statement of Walter R. Hutchinson, special assistant to the Attorney General, before the Senate Committee on Patents, Apr. 20, 1942, submitted by Hon. Thurman Arnold_ A National Policy for Industry, pamphlet signed by a number of 1068959 III SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL MOBILIZATION TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1943 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL MOBILIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 2:30 p. m., in room 104-B, Senate Office Building, Senator Harley M. Kilgore (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Kilgore (chairman) and Wallgren. Also present: Henry H. Collins, Jr., and Herbert Schimmel, of the committee staff. Witness present: Hon. Thurman Arnold; also present: Robert M. Hunter and Joseph Borkin. Senator KILGORE. The committee will come to order. This is the first meeting of the subcommittee on S. 702 of the Committee on Military Affairs. I want to introduce S. 702 at this point and have it made part of the record. (S. 702 was marked "Exhibit No. 1" and follows:) EXHIBIT No. 1 [S. 702, 78th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To mobilize the scientific and technical resources of the Nation, to establish an Office of Scientific and Technical Mobilization, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DECLARATION OF POLICY SECTION 1. The Congress hereby recognizes that the full development and application of the Nation's scientific and technical resources are necessary for the effective prosecution of the war and for peacetime progress and prosperity, and that serious impediments thereto consist in— the unassembled and uncoordinated state of information concerning existing scientific and technical resources; the lack of an adequate appraisal, and the unplanned and improvident training, development, and use, of scientific and technical personnel, resources, and facilities in relation to the national need; the consequent delay and ineffectiveness in meeting the urgent scientific and technical problems of the national defense and essential civilian needs; the trend toward monopolized control of scientific and technical data and other resources with lack of access thereto in the public interest; and the absence of an effective Federal organization to promote and coordinate, in the national interest, scientific and technical developments. 1 |