Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snow disposal department, reaching for the collected works of a strong figure in the naturalist school, former Mayor Russell of Cambridge, says that as far as ice deposits on "unimportant" Cambridge streets are concerned, "God put it there and God will take it away." Coming in an era of atom bombs, Mark I automatic calculators, and, of all things, snow removal machines, such an attitude seems to take on definite defeatist implications. One might even attribute a philosophy of life to it; but unfortunately the situation is not so simple nor complex as a set of beliefs built around...
Sometime this spring shiny segments of a new University atom-smasher will begin to arrive at what was once a vacant plot of Oxford and Everett streets, where a three-foot thick concrete foundation for the elephantine cyclotron is now reaching completion...
Walls of glass brick will throw some light on the highly-charged subject. Among the up-to-date equipment that will speed up the workings of the new giant is a huge travelling crane, installed under the roof, that will help to handle the ponderous atom-smashing apparatus...
Charted Policy. The world would probably see few changes in U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. was committed to U.N. and to devoting all its powers to make it work. The line toward Russia would not waver; the atom secret would not be given away until the U.S. program for internationalization was accepted. The U.S. still stood for disarmament-when all other major powers are ready to do the same...
...unfolding drama of events that will constitute the historically memorable part of 1947, the United Nations and the atom bomb will share star billing with an oftentimes dull, always undramatic intruder--the economic policy of the United States of America...