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Office of Technical Services links science to peacetime industry
Postwar era focus of the Department of Commerce seeks to translate government research into practical manufacturing use. Key roles include supplying concise technical answers to manufacturers, sponsoring industry-planned research, guiding inventors to develop ideas, informing engineers of military problems, and distributing captured Axis science and tech. Microfilm findings fuel plastics advances and new technicolor formulas. A Nebraska breakfast quip questions a platypus and a government cablegram, while boxcar shortages prompt a congressional committee probe.
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