Word: armours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Heald has long been known in academic circles as an unobtrusive worker of wonders. In 1937 he took over Chicago's dying (400 students) Armour Institute of Technology, merged it with the Lewis Institute, transformed the two schools into the flourishing Illinois Institute of Technology. Enrollments soared to 7,000, and the campus grew from seven acres to 85. In 1951 Heald moved to N.Y.U., the largest (37,064 students) private university in the U.S., proved that he could make even the biggest grow. He put up a new medical science building, a student center, a residence hall...
...Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
...reactor, owned jointly by the Armour foundation and 24 companies whose interests extend from food preserving to watchmaking, will hasten the new knowledge on which U.S. industry is building an Atomic Age technology. In the atomic furnace, physicists will explore the structure of metals, search for new plastics, investigate new ways of refining oil, new uses for rubber. Radioisotopes from the 50,000-watt reactor will be used by industry as tracers to track friction damage in machinery, test new chemical carriers for cancer therapy, hunt new manufacturing techniques in fields ranging from rubber to building materials...
High point of San Juan Week was Sunday, feast of San Juan. After a Pontifical High Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Name, a 5,000-strong procession made for the Chicago Avenue Armory and an afternoon and evening of island-style fun and games. Armour & Co. provided 500-odd pigs and the prize for reaching the top of a well-greased pole was a color television...
...even the hungriest reader might find the most sympathetic character a half-breed named Buffalo Dung, who deeply dislikes David and aims an arrow at his digestive juices. Unhappily, Buffalo Dung misses, and the epic staggers to its end like a strayed moose caught in an Armour's assembly line. By then, for those who wonder Quo Vardis Fisher?, heap big David and contented new Squaw Sunday are headed West, perhaps to Hollywood...