Daniel Wafena Bell (July 23, 1891 – October 4, 1971) was an American civil servant and businessman.

[2] Bell negotiated with Colonel Kenneth Nichols for the transfer of silver from the West Point Depository to the Manhattan Project, to substitute for scarce copper in the electromagnets used in the electromagnetic separation process at the Y-12 National Security Complex; eventually about 14,700 tons of silver was used.

When Nichols said What difference does it make how we express the quantity Bell replied Young man, you may think of silver in tons, but the Treasury will always think of silver in troy ounces.

[3] After the Second World War, he became president of American Security and Trust Company.

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