Word: atomizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Redbaiting and war scares they try to frighten us into patience under their extortionate greed. ... [It is] the policy of the trusts to re-establish a reactionary Germany as economic dictator over Europe. We declare to the people of the world that we will not . . . burn them alive with atom bombs to enforce the re-establishment of international monopolies...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...
...Especially big. Its interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron. On its 10,000 acres grow tomatoes, peaches, oranges, olives, avocados, alfalfa. A man can get frostbite or burn to a crisp without leaving university premises. The university employs...
...highly theoretical branch of physics which studies chiefly the interaction of mass and energy within the atom. Most scientists and practically all laymen get mentally seasick attempting to follow the wave mechanicians...
...priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...