Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bullets cause such havoc in atoms that researchers have so far been unable to sort out all the debris. Said one of the California scientists: "With the old cyclotron of 225 tons [60 inches], we could knock two or three floors off a 50-story building, or maybe add a floor or two. But with the new cyclotron, we can knock that 50-story building into a flock of four-room bungalows, with a lot of nails and shingles left over...
Upshot: California's atom smashers have thus far produced some 100 new isotopes* of atoms to add to the 450 previously known. Among them: two new forms of radium, and an iron isotope (atomic weight: 52) lighter than any iron ever before found. The physicists think that some of their new isotopes may be useful in medicine and research. But most of the isotopes, like the bombarded atom itself, are very unstable...
...amount of outside income allowed a single pensioner is raised from $125 to $240 a year. This clause will add 60,000 names to the present list of 209,000 pensioners...
There is one catch: the bill will not become effective until the nine provinces, which may add pension payments of their own, work out the details with the Dominion. Then the new legislation will cost Canadian taxpayers an estimated $65,500,000 a year in Dominion taxes (a $20,000,000 increase). But in the House, the only real opposition had come from members who thought that the Government was too stingy...
...cogent arguments: since 1939, rates had risen only 17.6%, but wages had risen 53%, materials 60%. The war-boom increase in traffic was no longer enough to make up the difference. Furthermore, 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers are demanding a 20?-an-hour pay boost, which would add $572 million a year to railroad costs; the railroad brotherhoods are demanding 44 changes in operating rules, which the railroads claim would cost another billion. If these increases are granted, said the railroads, even a 16% rate increase will not be enough...