The Rand History Project, 1985-1990.

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The Rand History Project, 1985-1990.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78280433

This project is a dual institutional study of the Rand Corporation and its military sponsor, the Air Force. This collection covers the period 1945 through the early 1960s. The interviews were conceived as another angle of inquiry on the relations between expert knowledge and the military in the early Cold War. The principal question which this interview set addresses is what motivated and sustained Air Force, industry, and academic interest in organizing this range of expertise through the creation of a new organizational entity supported by service funds. The principal investigator was Martin Collins. Individuals interviewed were: Bruno Augenstein, Robert Bacher with Lee DuBridge, Edward Barlow, Robert Belzer, Paul Blasingame, Edward Bowles, Frank Collbohm, Merton Davies, Richard Frick, Lawrence Henderson, Charles Hitch, Amrom Katz, Scott King, Burt Klein, David Novick, Malcolm Palmatier, Ernst Plessett, Edward Quade, Arthur Raymond, Ben Rumph, Robert Salter, Bernard Schriever, Gustave Shubert, Robert Specht, Hans Speier, George Tanham, Crawford Thompson, and Albert Wohlstetter.

104 hours of interviews with 29 individuals.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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National Air and Space Museum. Dept. of Space History.

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DuBridge, Lee A. (Lee Alvin), 1901-1994

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Lee DuBridge was President of the California Institute of Technology from 1946-1969. From the description of Space Research, 1958. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733095203 DuBridge was President of Caltech. From the description of No Shakeup in JPL Management Due, 1964 Feb. (Jet Propulsion Laboratory Library and Archives). WorldCat record id: 733096493 From the description of Confirmation of Conditions for Relations...

Frick, Richard Henry, 1916-

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Quade, E. S., (Edward S.)

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Speier, Hans

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During his lifetime, Hans Speier was distinguished by two very distinct careers. Speier was a lecturer in political sociology and economics in Germany (1931-1933) before emigrating to the U.S. to accept a position as lecturer and professor of political sociology on the newly formed Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York (1933-1942, 1947-1948), lecturing summers at the University of Illinois and the University of Michigan. Speier interrupted his university career for o...

Davies, Merton E.

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Rand corporation

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Augenstein, B. W.

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Bowles, Edward Lindley, 1897-1990

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Inventor, engineer, and educator. From the description of Edward Lindley Bowles papers, 1869-1990 (bulk 1920-1982). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79456446 Engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Lindley Bowles : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309722261 Edward L. Bowles born December 9, 1897 in Westphalia, Missouri. He was a Consultant to the Secretary of War and Special Consultant...

Bacher, Robert F. (Robert Fox), 1905-2004

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Robert R. Bacher (1905-). Physicist (high-energy physics, nuclear energy), California Institute of Technology. From the description of Papers, 1940-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81716582 Physicist. Cornell University, 1935. During World War II, worked in the radar program at the MIT Radiation Laboratory;Manhattan Project, Head of the Experimental Physics Division, 1943-1944, and head of the bomb physics division, 1944-1945;Member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission f...

Salter, Robert M.

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Barlow, Edward J. 1920-

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Palmatier, Malcolm

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Wohlstetter, Albert J.

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Albert J. Wohlstetter Biographical Note 1913 December 19 Born in New York City 1934 B.A., College of the City of New York 1934 1935 Studied, Columbia University Law School ...

Shubert, Gustave H.

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United States. Air Force

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At Harris Neck, Georgia, in the remote northern reaches of McIntosh County, the United States government, in the fall of 1942, confiscated the lands along the South Newport and Barbour Island Rivers. Paved runways were constructed for aircraft, and Harris Neck became an air reconnaissance base for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. A number of support buildings were constructed at the Harris Neck Air Base, such as barracks for personnel, an officers club, and PX, to serve the ...

Novick, David

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Specht, R. D. 1913-

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Katz, Amron H.

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Schriever, Bernard A. 1910-

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U.S. Air Force officer, aviator, and aerospace consultant. Born 1910; died 2005. From the description of Bernard A. Schriever papers, 1931-2005 (bulk 1954-2000). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132911 ...

Collins, Martin J., 1951-

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Tanham, George Kilpatrick

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