Word: allison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shock-haired, 45-year-old Sam Allison, director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies, said that the Manhattan Project had ruined him by turning him from a good research worker into a bureaucrat. Said he: "Scientists want to publish their work so that it will do the most good for mankind. The Army wants to pay us to produce things, and keep quiet...
...Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary. General Groves hates my guts. But he hates Fermi's guts worse...
...Americans understand the game. The New York Times's Allison Danzig claims to be one of them. Of a swanky Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service...
Like the XB-42, it will be powered by two Allison engines in the front of the fuselage, driving the propellers by shafts extending the length of the plane. In the Skybus, Douglas expects to carry 48 passengers at the record low operating rate of 7^ a ton-mile. Soon Douglas expects to start taking orders for his Skybus. He hopes to start delivering them within a year, have them take the place of his famed workhorse...
This is a howl from an indignant citizen. W. F. ALLISON Lieutenant, U.S.N.R. Washington