Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When science hatched the atomic age, moralists and politicians were handed some frightful problems. A different sort of problem is now nagging the scientists themselves: what to do with the deadly radioactive waste products turned out by all the chain-reacting piles? Last week Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, an Oak Ridge physicist, admitted that the problem of this lethal garbage has become serious...
...Motilones, even the well-armed oilmen, suffered from Indian jitters. They told of fearsome raids, with 40 or 50 Indians bursting out of the jungle. The raids were real enough, and they happened constantly. But after studying the tracks of the raiders, Holder decided that the aver age party consisted of one adult Indian, one woman or adolescent and one small child. Such a primitive task force, he thinks, slips at night through a village or oil camp, picking up tools or bits of metal
...kept him in practice, and pleased the promoters, the public and his pocketbook. Last week Joe Louis was feeling his full 32 years. To the press he announced: "I did the Bum-of-the-Month thing, you know . . . but it isn't worth while now, not at my age." Then, for lack of an able-bodied foe, he-called off the fight he had scheduled for June...
...apprentices were trained in the '305, so most journeymen now are older men who simply cannot do a hard day's work. (The average age of masons in Chicago is 58.) Builders agree that the productivity of most A.F.L. building-trades labor is only 50 to 60% of prewar. And there seemed to be little hope of much improvement...
...health of U.S. children has never been better. The death rate of children (age i to 14) is at a record low. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reports that in the past 15 years the child death rate has dropped 60% (see chart...