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...front of a blackboard white with diagrams and equations, Nils Bohr, the inventor of the atom as it is conceived by theoretical physicists everywhere, brought an overflowing crowd in Mallin-krodt's Large Lecture Room up to date on. "The Present State of the Theory of Elemental Particles" yesterday...
...Americans and British entered Germany, they had special teams ready to pounce on any likely-looking technician, piece of apparatus, scrap of paper. These teams, mostly directed by FIAT (Field Information Agency, Technical), were considerably better organized than the Russian brain-hunters. The U.S. had no immediate need of atomic help, since it was already pointing for Hiroshima, but it wanted to keep German atom workers away from the Reds. The U.S. did want help with rockets and guided missiles...
Preparedness is still the Soviet watchword. To ensure "further growth of the economic and military might of the Soviet Union," the allotments for scientific research (i.e., the atom) were tripled to 6.3 billion rubles. But the emphasis is on domestic reconstruction rather than foreign expansion. Appropriations for industry, agriculture and transport were all substantially raised. Education jumped from 26.4 to 40.2 billion rubles. The budget also: ¶ Estimated Soviet state income at 333.5 billion rubles. Chief sources of revenue: 200.8 billion from a turnover tax on all economic enterprises, 21 billion profit taxes from industry, 23.5 billion individual income taxes...
Ever since he predicted that Boston and all other U.S. coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...
Unanimous disapproval of Armed forces monopoly of the atom emerged from the two-day session as a situation detrimental to scientific initiative. William A. Higinbotham, executive secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, saw the absence of a presidential appointment to the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission as a distinct trend is the militaristic direction...