Hi Rex, thanks for the post, it's kinda lonely around here of late...
I've been finding these older sources valuable right along, and not just in electronics. A lot of my initial learning on fusor stuff was from Rev Sci Instruments, but from the 40's though maybe the '60s.
When a thing is new, the people involved are excited and want to show the world all about the cool new toy. Once it's half mature, it seems grad students are the only writers, and their motivation is to convince a thesis adviser they have command of the jargon that keeps the unwashed out - a whole different class of priority, and you can't learn anything from that.
In the case of the National stuff...those guys and a few others were who really taught me electronics after my Dad got me into it as a child. Robert Dobkins, Bob Pease, Jim Williams (Motorola at the time) and a few others I've left out were my heros.
As luck would have it, due to inheriting some racks of GAP (Philbrick) opamp gear, I wound up getting in touch with Joe Sousa, a great engineer himself then at LTC, who introduced me to my old heros, since they then all worked there (many no longer living, sigh). I had some real good dox and personal communications between my Dad and George and shared them and some data sheets for
Joe's Philbrick archive (which is worth checking out). We did leave out the paper on how to simulate the delayed neutrons from fission, as that would actually have broadcast some things that are still secret and necessary for reactor and bomb design...but back in the day, publishing in a journal like that (like a math journal today) is just as secret as a vault...
Posting as just me, not as the forum owner. Everything I say is "in my opinion" and YMMV -- which should go for everyone without saying.