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... Was a professional engineer to be primarily [aJ a businessman, {bJ an employee, organized along the lines of production workers, or [cJ a repository of arcane scientific knowledge? For many practicing engineers, professional identity centered on the businessman concept.
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... President Hoover was interested in conservation of resources Land, lumber, and watery, and in 1929 commissioned studies that did draw attention to the "unsynchronized" developments in technology. These were clearly matters requiring government attention, but there was as yet little precedent for governmental intervention in economic development on a large scale.
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  • civil engineering

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  • governmental intervention
  • electrical products
  • government attention


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