in both areas, its medical and professional schools in Baltimore and its
main campus situated near the District of Columbia line at College
Park. Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland alone account for
more than $50 million annually in sponsored research in scientific
fields.
In the District of Columbia, there are twelve institutions of higher
learning, including such renowned institutions as the American Uni-
versity, Catholic University, Georgetown University, George Washing-
ton University, Howard University, Trinity College, and so on.
It is quite evident from all of this that the Maryland-District of
Columbia area is superbly equipped and endowed for the growth and
expansion of that important segment of our economy known as re-
search and development. Research and development expenditures by
industries, the government and the universities I am advised have risen
from $3 billion annually in 1950 to $17. 4 billion currently. It is
highly significant that of this total of $17. 4 billion, $14 billion is
represented in expenditures by the federal government, which means
of course that it is administered and controlled right here in this
community. It is predicted that by the end of this decade, this ex-
penditure will have risen to $25 billion, with the ratio of federal to
total expenditures unimpaired.
It seems hardly necessary to underscore what these figures and these
forecasts mean in terms of the economic health and prosperity of
Washington, Baltimore and the surrounding areas. The federal funds
which are allocated for research and development make Washington
a world center of scientific development. The range of activities of
these laboratories cover just about every area of science. Some of the
major governmental research facilities in the Maryland-District of Co-
lumbia are the Atomic Energy Commission, the Goddard Space Flight
Center, the National Institutes of Health, the National Bureau of
Standards, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Naval Medical Re-
search Institute, the Metallurgy Research Center, the Smithsonian In-
stitution, the Agricultural Research Center, and others.
Consequently, the two great metropolitan areas possess a unique
combination of assets for the growth and development of industry,
particularly of the science-oriented type. We in Maryland, then, consider
ourselves most fortunate in our proximity to and our connection with
the National Capital.
Indeed, I believe that the greatest investment we ever made in the
future of our State was on that day 172 years ago when our General
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