War research helped fund a TV stationSourced
A college worked on wartime uranium.
The overhead helped build a TV station.
Iowa State College received a five-percent overhead allowance for wartime research connected with uranium production for the Manhattan Project. That money became one funding source for WOI-TV, which began regular broadcasts in 1950.
One research budget
reached the broadcast tower.
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