The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-04-22
Industrial Research
(NeW York Tilnesl

(New York Times
 The annual pamphlet report of the United States Steel Corporation invariably be depended upon to provide more than it's share of houghtprovokng facts to what is happening to American industry. The re- port covering Stees oryfifth year of operation no exception in that respect. Its contents range from financial results through prices labor relations ship building and productive capacity, to pensions, group insurance and safety plans for workers But of par tcuar interest is the section devoted developments in that industry within the industry research and technology.
 As in the case of many others companies, Big Sees program of fundamental and applied research was di- vered from its normal during the war but has been redrected to the perennial quest for and better peacetme products Tn the field of carbon stees research is more under way looking to improved steel for automobiles, washing machines and refrg- orators In the low alloy hgh-srength stees investi- gaton is being carried on with transportation field in mind where utility measured in terms of reduction in weight without sacrifice of en2th and durability And so the search is continued resumed all along tfe nefor steels that will stand higher temperatures sees suitable for prefabrcaed homes seeS of greater machnabilty and steels for improved wire products.
 This glimpse into Steels laboratories is not citing because it is unique Quite the contrary. It is exciting because it is typical of what is going in some 23O0 American industrial laboratories and be- it therefore symbozes of the most dynamic characteristics of American industry In 1887, accord ing to a study just published in The Index of the New York Trust Company 303 research workers were employed for every 10000 wage-earners, 232 in the radio apparatus and phonograph industries, POT in petroleum and 173 in rubber. The universities have been, and continue to be, the major source of new basic scientific knowledge but the results of the ap piled research carried in industrial labol atories evident on every hand in new and improved products, lower costs and wider distribution of the findings of modern technology.
 While United States steel is busy with it's problems in alloys. aircraft manufacturers at work pro gram which they hope will result, in the next five ten years airpanes safe for all weather flying In the telegraph industry, this study reminds short rado-beam systems being constructed
 linking important cities with equipment that will carry up to 1000 messages in two direction at the time the same channel. The coal and sugar industries at work seeing for their products Bene- fits of research appear in many innovations being introduced the railroadS-new gas turbine ocomo- tves Diesel-electric locomotives improved coaches and special-purpose cars and telephone and radio com munication between moving trains between trains and roadside towers
 One of Americas leading chemical companies re- ports that of it's total sales at the present time 30 per cent is represented by products that either nonexstent not in commercial production before 1886. This sort of thing provides ample justification for the observation of the author of the New York once "an industry and incubator of industries . It is also one might add excellent example of private capital at work in the modern manner.