Pearl Harbor opened Washington posts that pulled Institute scholars into government work.

Evidence

In the late summer of 1941, William J. Donovan (`Wild Bill’), who was building up the Office of the Coordinator of Information which later developed into the Office of Strategic Services, had approached the Institute with regard to employing Neumann and Horkheimer in their capacities as the greatest experts on Nazi journals and magazines. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, and Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The USA thus became a nation at war, and a contribution to the war effort was expected from academics and intellectuals; many vacancies for academically qualified personnel opened up in Washington. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 316

Categorization

• XREF: Backs the earlier claim that six Institute associates joined US war agencies by 1943. — connects to: The USA’s entry into war created the academic employment openings that dispersed the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1223; Government war work drained Institute members’ time and restricted their publishing — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The USA’s entry into war created the academic employment openings that dispersed the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1223; Government war work drained Institute members’ time and restricted their publishing — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 321