National Science Foundation, 1945-1950

File — Box: 23, Folder: 24

Identifier: CAC_CC_057_2_23_24_0000

Staff Only

Comprised of 5.5 cubic feet of material, this series is concerned with the activities of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and contains the same types of materials as in the subject files. Arranged alphabetically, some of the more significant items include documents pertaining to health insurance and public health. When Wilson traveled to Europe as a member of the Subcommittee on Public Health, Science, and Commerce, he visited clinics and attended seminars and meetings. The notes and publications gathered on the trip along with the correspondence, articles, statements, and reports presented to the subcommittee are an important source of information regarding American attitudes toward socialized medicine during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Also included in the committee files are correspondence, legislation, reports, speeches, statements, and publications concerning the passage of the National Science Foundation Act. Other topics addressed by the committee include fur and wool labeling, federal aid to medical education, Interstate Commerce Commission, television and radio matters, oil imports, and the Natural Gas Act.