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Word: aec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radioactive rock does not contain uranium. It may contain thorium (also radioactive), in which the AEC has only a faint interest. The booklet describes a rather complicated process by which the prospector can test his find with ultraviolet light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Where the Click Is Louder | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Government's guaranteed price for uranium oxide (U2O4) in sufficient concentration is $3.50 a lb. The AEC also pays a $10,000 bonus for a really good find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out Where the Click Is Louder | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...then got out lest it be tagged as a merchant of death again, to put its vast resources back to work on atomic energy. But as long as Tom Clark thought Du Pont was too big, there was small hope that Du Pont would accede to AEC's plea to grow bigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Knife | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...show at the Joint Atomic Energy Committee's hearing. For 2½ hours, the cropped-haired scientist set forth the intricacies of atomic science, gave sure, rapid-fire answers to polite questions-and punched gaping holes in Iowa Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's foundering one-man campaign against AEC Chairman David Lilienthal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Brothers | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

...basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with AEC's account of the recovery of almost all the missing uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1949 | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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