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IF planning ahead in industry is necessary for national and international well-being and Democratic America, Fascist Italy, and Soviet Russia hold that it is it is equally desirable for industrial research. The financing of scientific and industrial research in Great Britain has been marked by alternating gusts of national generosity and national parsimony, thus precluding the possibility of progressing on an even keel by laying down settled plans of research for more than a year ahead. During the decade 1930-40, the main avowed objective of the Forestry Commission was the planting of 353,000 acres of forest, for which a continuous supply of nursery stock had to be arranged in advance. In 1931 the programme was curtailed shortly after recovering from its birth pangs. This curtailment has resulted in an absolute loss and waste of £50,000 which had been invested in young trees which could not be planted out or sold and this in the sacred name of ‘economy’!
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A Ten-Year Plan for Industrial Research. Nature 132, 436 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132436a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132436a0