Word: ashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some big problems must still be licked. One is the lack of water needed for refining. All big U.S. shale deposits lie in the most arid sections of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. Another problem is the question of ash disposal: more than a ton of ash is piled up for every barrel of oil produced...
Burn-Out. Plutonium is fissionable and a fine nuclear fuel, but the first reactors did not produce enough of it to replace the U-235 consumed. So their nuclear fuel gradually "burned out," leaving U-238 as a sort of ash. Thus, the reactors of the early atomic age could utilize only a very small part of the uranium fed into them...
...winners, Geoffrey D. Bush '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House, Stephen J. Brademas '49 1G of South Bend, Indiana and Perkins Hall, Francis G. Steiner 1G of New York and 30 Ash Street, Cambridge, will receive grants of 500 pounds ($1,400) annually for study at Oxford University in England...
...when he leaves a room, puts out all the lights himself. In this way he saves money which would otherwise go abroad to pay for coal and oil. General Perón is also very careful about his clothes. You will never see a spot of dirt or cigarette ash on his suit, and that is not simply because his servants remove the stain. It is because he does not soil his clothes. When a suit gets dirty by accident, that is not so bad, but it is unpardonable to see the day's menu on the lapel...
British sewing circles went into a tizzy when a news photograph of Princess Elizabeth's private desk showed an ash tray and what looked like a cigarette box. The London Daily Express speculated whether the princess smoked in secret. Ready to believe the worst, a crestfallen spokesman for the National Society of Non-Smokers announced: "The society isn't downhearted, of course; we just have to work harder...