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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Working a bull feels natural to me," he explains. "It's as natural as driving a car. Dominating a huge, powerful animal gives me the greatest feeling in the world. You can compare a bullfight to a Shakespearean tragedy. Someone always gets killed, sometimes a torero and almost always the bull, and I can't see a thing in the world funny about it..That's what I like about it-the drama. You can taste it when you're in there with a good bull...
Radio for Cannon. For a while, he did basic physical research on terrestrial magnetism, which influences cosmic rays. But World War II had begun, and weapons came first. Van Allen was put to work on the development of proximity fuses, which called for something almost inconceivable in 1940: a radio transmitter-receiver that could stand being fired out of a cannon in the nose of a shell. At the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., just outside Washington, Van Allen was a junior scientist in the proximity fuse business, but it made him an expert...
Sulking Tube. Mystified, Van Allen hurried back to Iowa, where his assistants, Drs. Carl McIlwain and Ernest Ray, were puzzling over a copy of the same tape. The three almost simultaneously hit a solution. The high-flying Geiger tube was being swamped by too heavy a dose of some kind of radiation. This is a weakness of Geiger tubes. If required to count too many times a second, they sulk and do not count...
...ninth straight month, consumer prices held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...
...hard to obtain Government help in export financing when private capital is not available. John Lawrence, executive vice president of Dallas' Dresser Industries (oil drilling equipment), complains that while Washington is studying an export application, Italian and French competitors can close a sale. Government aid for them is almost automatic...