Edwin Grant Conklin (1863–1952) American biologist and zoologist
Quoted in: Cliffe Knechtle (1986) Give Me an Answer, p. 70
“"We do not encourage initiative," said the factory manager. "What you must do is to learn to work to the safety rules." It was my first day in my first job, as a plant chemist in an explosives factory, located in the English countryside, in July 1941. Happily, he was quite wrong. We were not making some old, tried and tested explosive like nitroglycerine or TNT. It was the first large -scale production of a brand-new chemical, code-named RDX-Research Department eXplosive-developed by a government military research department.”
Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 3.
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