#TheDevilReachedTowardTheSky# Arthur Holly Compton: This decision to develop another vast area for carrying on the atomic project added very substantially to its total cost. It was about a similar occasion that General George C. Marshall was speaking when, years later, he told me the following story. General Groves came to see him at his office in Washington. Marshall kept him waiting for some minutes while he finished an item on his desk. Then he turned to examine Groves’s memorandum. It was a statement that added facilities would require an additional hundred million dollars. He read the memo and, as was his custom, handed it back with only a kind comment to indicate his approval. As Groves was about to leave, Marshall called him back. “General,” he said, “you may be interested to know why I kept you waiting when you came in. I was writing this check for three dollars and fifty-two cents for grass seed for my lawn.”