Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories, but with no more attention to a reporter's basic tenet of checking on the reliability of sources. Many papers, notably the Hopkins-hating Hearst press, bayed off in such excitement last week that they hardly bothered even to qualify their headlines. Cried the San Francisco Examiner: ATOM GIFT TO RUSS TOLD. The Columbus, Ohio Evening Dispatch blared...
There is nothing more detrimental to the understanding of modern science than fuzzy definitions. Miss Doherty says that one treatment for cancer is the use of "radioactive isotopes from the heart of the smashed atom." Now radioactive isotopes have something to do with atomic energy, but by no stretch of the imagination do they reside in the hearts of atoms nor are they released in the process of nuclear fission. There are several other bad errors...
...life as one of Chicago's best-known madams. (She sneeringly told Norma she was such a "little cracker you wouldn't be no good in a house.") Last summer Norma went after Chicago's quack doctors and had everything from electric vibrators to "atom water" prescribed for her imaginary ailments ; one of her "doctors" is now awaiting trial. That was the only time she was frightened. Said she: "Those places were horrible . . . even the injection needles were dirty...
...contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be used "against conquered and enslaved populations...
...start building for his own financial future. "These years have certainly been strenuous and exacting," he wrote, "but they have also been very rewarding, in every way except financially . . ." And, added articulate David Lilienthal, he had long wanted the chance to discuss the problems of the atom more freely "than is either feasible or suitable for one who carries specific public responsibilities...