Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hall, whose district was consolidated five months ago with that of Republican Congressman W. Sterling Cole, was the offender. In campaigning against Cole for survival in Congress, Campaigner Hall, the Binghamton Press reported, made the charge: "I see that my opponent is going to Nevada, ostensibly to witness an atom-bomb explosion. Well, it will probably be another elbow-tipping party . . . When they get these Congressmen a little tipsy, are they spilling out secrets that are going into Russian hands...
...National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases is sponsoring a project to manufacture about one gram (1/30 of an oz.) of radioactive cortisone. The Institute will put up $66,000 for Montreal's Charles E. Frosst & Co. to do the tricky manufacturing job of building cortisone with an atom of radioactive carbon-14 in Ring A of the molecule. As many as a hundred research outfits may get the stuff; one gram will be enough for 100,000 tracer doses. ¶ The shortage of nurses would not be half so bad if hospitals would stop using nurses for orderly...
...serves as a mother ship for the fighter, carrying it partly inside, and can launch it in flight and pick it up again. Using the team, the long-range B-36 could carry a short-range but speedy fighter close to a target, release it to drop an atom bomb. As the wire services carried Cain's story around the country, only one thing marred his pride: a woman reader telephoned to thank him because her husband had refused to believe her when she told him several weeks before about the B-36's new tricks...
...have to know our Allies," Hopper stated. "We've got to have people who will hunt tigers with us." Saying that we lost our natural allies in enemy countries in the last World War by saturation bombing techniques, he added, "I believe that the atom bomb should not have been dropped...
...magazine is careful to print no classified material, has held up an article as long as three years for clearance. Despite this leisurely pace, the editors and contributors think that the world is running out of time in which to work out the international problems of the atom bomb. When the Bulletin began, the cover pictured a clock with the hands at eight minutes to midnight. Now the hands have been moved up to three minutes of twelve...