Word: basically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Harold Urey, standing before the Roosevelt Day dinner of the Americans for Democratic Action in New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, had a right to be heard. His Nobel Prize had been won in 1934 for the discovery of heavy hydrogen, a basic step toward the development both of the first atomic bomb and any hydrogen bomb that may come. He had predicted the date of the Russian atomic bomb explosion far more accurately than had U.S. military or political leaders...
...several Harvard scientists contacted, only Mather and Oldenberg could speak about the bomb, since most of the others were connected with the Los Alamos project and knew confidential information. Oldenberg teaches a basic course in atomic physics...
...countless millions spent each year to advance U.S. technology, how much is going into basic scientific research? Dangerously little, warned Cal-Tech's President Lee A. DuBridge last week at a meeting of the American Management Association in San Francisco. Said...
Americans, said Dr. DuBridge, are "approaching a real crisis in ... basic science. [They] take such great pride in the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of Government and industrial money is going into research in applied science that they are unconcerned and even uninformed about the fact that but a tiny fraction of this amount is being fed into the laboratories of basic science...
...CalTech's annual report, President DuBridge pins much of the blame for the sad plight of basic research on a "confused" policy of the Federal Government, which has left "the support of science . . . largely with those [Government] agencies whose primary functions are military." As a result, basic science is fighting a losing battle for funds, and "there is increasing pressure to extend to basic science the secrecy restrictions which necessarily pervade military weapon development . . . An excellent way to stifle science is to cut off its sources of support. A still better way is to suppress its freedom...