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...through the perilous spring of 1942, the scientists worked. In numerous guarded laboratories, their strange apparatus glowed and hummed. By June they had made progress. The program mushroomed, was transferred to the War Department...
Squash Court Pile. Production of plutonium was probably no more important, but vastly more dramatic. On a squash court under the stands of University of Chicago's football field, a strange apparatus took form. It was an oblate spheroid (doorknob shape), built up of graphite bricks with lumps of uranium or uranium oxide imbedded in their corners. This was the world's first chain reaction "pile"-a uranium "lattice" and a graphite "moderator." If it worked according to Dr. Fermi's theories, it would produce the first chain reaction ever set up on earth...
...fires. To spotters in the Bureau of Labor Statistics there was nothing new in this-the spark of labor unrest always kindles fastest in summer, when men are irritable, when contract negotiations deadlock, when picketing is most comfortable. But after more than three years of use, the slow fire apparatus of the War Labor Board was sadly worn. In Akron, Ohio, the nation's rubber capital, there was proof that the U.S. had only one certain method of extinguishing stubborn strikes -a Presidential order for seizure of plants...
...took a ship to Cuba's Matanzas Bay, sank a mile-long tube, pumped up cold water from the ocean floor. It was his idea to utilize the temperature differential be tween this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube and retrieved at the surface, the Havana Academy of Science named it for him: Benthocometes-Claude...
...Heller, took shape in Washington. Under it, the Surplus Property Board would : 1 ) sell or rent leftover medical supplies and equipment to communities which could not afford to buy them on the regular market; 2) charge almost nothing - e.g., a dollar a year rent for expensive X-ray apparatus...