Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody but Einstein and a few other people can understand what goes on in the mind of Nobel Prizewinning atom-smasher Enrico Fermi. But one Fermi theory is intelligible to all, and last week 192 students at the University of Chicago were enjoying its practice. The theory: that elementary science courses must be well taught if students are to do well in advanced classes. At Chicago, for the first time in about 15 years of teaching in Italy and the U.S., Dr. Fermi was teaching an elementary physics class himself...
...that Russia would not be intimidated by exponents of aggressive expansionism who were undermining international collaboration, but would continue to fight for security and the prevention of further aggression. Russia wished "to strengthen U.N.," which other nations were trying "to shatter." Russian blood, he added, "was not shed for atom blackmailers...
Soviet newspapers carrying the Zhdanov speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
...atom was looking for jobs in private industry...
Last week the War Department announced that it would finance a $20,000,000 nuclear research laboratory at "The Knolls," near Schenectady, N.Y. Complete with "uranium reactor," powerful atom smashers, a "hot lab" and other baleful equipment, it would work in close cooperation with General Electric Co.'s great new research laboratory, now under construction. Principal objective: atomic power for peaceful purposes...