"Science The Endless Frontier. A Report to the President by Vannevar Bush, Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, July 1945. (United States Government Printing Office, Washington: 1945). Table of contents. ... Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress. Respectfully yours, (s) V. Bush, Director."

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