NBS Special Publication, Issue 284U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 |
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... foreign trade and investment . I du- tifully read all that I could find by professional economists on this subject , much of it not yet pub- lished . On the basis of the material I could find , I must give the profession low marks ...
... foreign trade and investment . I du- tifully read all that I could find by professional economists on this subject , much of it not yet pub- lished . On the basis of the material I could find , I must give the profession low marks ...
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... foreign markets , than is true of firms whose research effort is oriented heavily toward spe- cial requirements of government contracts . These often involve very exacting requirements which dom- nate cost considerations . For ...
... foreign markets , than is true of firms whose research effort is oriented heavily toward spe- cial requirements of government contracts . These often involve very exacting requirements which dom- nate cost considerations . For ...
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... foreign investment abroad - the creation of the multi - national firm . Such investmen tends to diffuse technical knowledge and manage ment skills as well as , or even perhaps more than capital . Leads or Lags ? I will close by ...
... foreign investment abroad - the creation of the multi - national firm . Such investmen tends to diffuse technical knowledge and manage ment skills as well as , or even perhaps more than capital . Leads or Lags ? I will close by ...
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... Foreign Economic Administration . He began his serv- ice with the Department of State in 1946 , holding positions as Deputy and Acting Executive Director , Bureau of European Affairs ; Executive Assistant , Office of the Assistant ...
... Foreign Economic Administration . He began his serv- ice with the Department of State in 1946 , holding positions as Deputy and Acting Executive Director , Bureau of European Affairs ; Executive Assistant , Office of the Assistant ...
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... Foreign Investment Policy But the reverse side of this possibility should be a mpletely open policy on their part on foreign in- stment , because you are not going to have it both ays . If you want to protect yourself for a certain me ...
... Foreign Investment Policy But the reverse side of this possibility should be a mpletely open policy on their part on foreign in- stment , because you are not going to have it both ays . If you want to protect yourself for a certain me ...
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Page 74 - Director of the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President.
Page 56 - Assistant to the President of The International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited, and a Vice President of The International Nickel Company, Inc., assigned to executive support of major corporate activities.
Page 4 - ... Vannevar Bush, who later served as chairman of the board of Merck & Co., Inc. For his OSRD work, Mr. Connor received a Presidential Certificate of Merit. In 1944 he went on active duty with the US Marine Corps, serving In the Pacific as an air combat intelligence officer. Returning in 1945 from Japan, he became counsel to the new Office of Naval Research, and later, Special Assistant to Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Joining Merck & Co., Inc., in 1947, as general attorney, Mr. Connor held several...
Page 92 - ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF ONLY THREE TECHNOLOGICAL INDUSTRIES OUT OF MANY In 1945, the TELEVISION, JET TRAVEL, and DIGITAL COMPUTER industries were commercially non-existent. In 1965, these industries contributed more than $ 13 BILLION to our GNP and an estimated 900,000 jobs . . . and very important, affected the QUALITY of our lives.
Page 22 - One might ask whether an electronic industry could exist without the previous discovery of electrons by people like Thomson and HA Lorentz. Again, it didn't happen that way. One might ask even whether induction coils in motor cars might have been made by enterprises which wanted to make motor transport and whether then they would have stumbled on the laws of induction. But the laws of induction had been found by Faraday many decades before that. "Or whether, in an urge to provide better communication,...
Page 159 - Office of International Economic and Social Affairs Department of State Washington, DC Paul Sithi-Amnuay, Vice President Bangkok Bank Ltd.
Page 68 - We have seen, too, what government research and development contracts given to the university and to private corporations have produced in overcoming scientific and technological obstacles in the remarkably short time. "The same partnership concept, the same systems approach ; the same investment in research and development, applied to other public needs may prove to be the way in which our rich nation may finally be able to overcome economic and social problems which have been generations in the...
Page 8 - ... member of the Advisory Board to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces; member of the Naval Research Advisory Committee (Chairman, 1960-62), Office of Naval Research; consultant to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; and member of the Policy Advisory Board, Argonne National Laboratory, and of the Statutory Visiting Committee for the National Bureau of Standards. Dr. Seitz is vice president of the International Union of Pure...
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