Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Between 8 and 20 million "forced laborers," most of them at work on the massive "Stalin Projects" (Volga-Don Canal, Kuibyshev power station), and in atom plants in central Siberia. Supervised by GULAG, the industrial arm of the MVD (secret police), a minority of the slaves are political prisoners; many are Crimean Tartars and other minorities, shipped to Siberia en masse...
Where will all the needed energy come from? Surprisingly enough, the Woytinskys estimate that four-fifths will be obtained just the way it is now-from coal, oil, gas, water, wood and work animals-and only one-fifth from such new sources as the sun, the wind and the atom (see chart). While petroleum consumption "is certain to rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors...
...finished cover portraits are the property of the artist, TIME occasionally buys the original to present to the subject. So far, 105 people own original Baker portraits, 16 bought directly from the artist and 89 presented by TIME. The latest subject to receive his original portrait was U.S. Atom Boss Lewis Strauss (TIME. Sept. 21), who wrote recently to say that he considered himself highly flattered by Artist Baker's work...
Swindletron. Drs. Luis W. Alvarez and John R. Woodyard of the University of California are building a new-type atom-smasher that they call a "swindletron" because it seems to get something for nothing. At one end of a 6-ft. vacuum tube, protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their single electrons) are shot at comparatively low speed (30,000 volts) through a thin, uncharged disk of aluminum foil. While passing through it, many of them pick up two electrons, becoming negatively charged hydrogen atoms. Next, they are attracted to a second disk of foil that is charged positively...
...just-exploded atom bomb is a difficult subject for photography. Its fireball expands so suddenly that no ordinary shutter can act quickly enough to freeze its motion. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission released a picture of a "nuclear device" caught in the very act of vaporizing the tower on which it had stood...