Word: atomizers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advertisement elsewhere in this issue, entitled "The truth about atomic hazards," sponsored by the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force, it is stated that radiation is the least important aftermath of an atom bomb explosion, as regards danger to humans, and that "only 15% of the deaths at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were caused by radiation . . . No significant amount of radiation appeared to linger after the explosions...
...Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting the atom...
Toyland's atomic age is booming; chemistry sets contain samples of uranium ore, guaranteed to be all but inert, and incapable of making Junior radioactive. An atom gun with a hidden battery flashes and buzzes, and a "rocket" car is driven along on compressed...
...Nobody Is Perfect." In the Human Rights Commission last week, the Soviets' Alexei Pavlov launched one of his routine tirades against the U.S., which usually range far afield to cover the atom bomb, lynching, and warmongering. Up rose Eleanor Roosevelt to make a soft but effective answer: "I do not want to make more bad feelings here ... I want to try to have us, when we have to say that we do not agree, say it on the idea, and as courteously as we can. [We should] be perfectly honest and frank about our objectives, not attack ourselves more...
Said Engineer Poole: the theory of the atom-driven airplane is "99% perfected." The long-haired scientists have done their work, he explained, and now it is up to the "slide-rule men" to translate theory into a tangible airplane...