Twentieth Century Fund

Myrdal, Gunnar 1968. Asian Drama an Enquiry into the Poverty of Nations. New York Twentieth Century Fund. 

Whitney SN. Antitrust Policies. Vol. II. New York The Twentieth Century Fund 1958. 

The Twentieth Century Fund, of New York, which is not a membership organization, publishes reports, in book form, on a wide range of economic subjects. Examples of such publications include the following Americans Needs and Resources (4< ), World Population and Productions 51) y Economic Effects of Technological Developmentsss 50), and Cartels or Competitions ( P). 

Governmental Affairs, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D.C., daily. Nation s Business, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, ET.C., monthly. Twentieth Century Fund, New York, America s Needs and Resources, 1947. 

Twentieth Century Fund, New York, Cartels or Competition, 1948. 

And they are doing well according to the findings of the Twentieth Century Fund s 1984 Science in the Streets study, and more recently, the Scientists Institute for Public Information (SIPI) survey. In SIPI s 1986 study, over 90 percent of the scientists queried felt that journalists were performing with accuracy and appropriateness, and were helpful in improving the public s understanding of science. 

H.B. Logan, News of an exciting discovery," Better Homes and Gardens (October 1939) 13, 94, 104-105 quote p. 94. On the role of the Research Corporation in mediating between academia and industry in the first half of the twentieth century, see C. Weiner, Patenting and academic research Historical case studies, Science, Technology, and Human Value 12 (1987) 50-62. In this case the Research Corporation funds chan-... 

Thus by the end of the twentieth century, the American chemical industry consisted of two multisectored core companies, Du Pont and Dow, as well as a number of specialty chemicals manufacturers still focused on products commercialized in the 1920s or in the 1940s and 1950s. The oil and gas companies produced feedstocks, basic petrochemicals, and commodity chemicals. Except for the German and Swiss companies, which from the start had commercialized pharmaceuticals, the European multisectored chemical companies had also become producers of specialty chemicals. For example, Britain s ICI, after spinning off in 1993 its most profitable division (pharmaceuticals) as a separate enterprise (Zeneca), used the funds generated to acquire Unilever s specialty chemical division. 

In the United States, federal and state agricultural experiment stations and state land-grant colleges sponsored the bulk of plant cultivar development for much of the twentieth century. With a decline in public funding, the emphasis has shifted to private industry and large corporations. These corporations conduct their own research and development but also fund university-based research projects, skewing efforts toward their bottom lines, which may not correspond with public interest. 

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