Word: betas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, Boston's radioactive, midget had chain-reacted into a million-a-year business. Tracerlab's shy, ascetic president, William E. Barbour Jr., 39, announced that with the new "Beta Gauge," an atomic method to help control production by measuring the thickness of industrial products, Tracerlab had moved from a laboratory-type company into an industrial...
...Beta Gauge, which measures the thickness of a material by spraying it with beta particles (electrons) from a radioactive isotope and gauging their penetration, was first installed last May in Continental Paper Co.'s plant at Ridgefield Park, N.J. It worked so uncannily well that rubber, paper mills and other industries all began clamoring for it. To meet the demand, Tracerlab has tripled its space by moving into a nearby six-story building paid for out of $1,196,000 of new capital raised last spring with a stock issue. It expects to step up gauge production from...
...Thompson has been a newspaperman since he was 19 years old. He grew up in St. Thomas, N. Dak. (pop. 503), made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Dakota, and became editor of the weekly Foster County (N. Dak.) Independent. Later, moving to the Milwaukee Journal, he filled all the jobs from reporter through picture editor to assistant news editor...
...week's end, two powerful voices joined the counterattack. "Teachers are being intimidated," said the national Phi Beta Kappa society, "and students are being led to believe that colleges dare no longer engage in the disinterested pursuit of truth." The society warned local chapters to resist "such emotional pressure." Then Harvard University spoke...
Frederick Sheldon Prize Fellowships, which provide for travel rather than for formal study, have been won by John M. Team '50 of Springfield, Mo., David G. Hughes '47 of Westport, Conn., and in manuel H. Kohn '43 of Northampton. Hughes a muise concentrator is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Team, a physics concentrator, also made Phi Beta Kappa, and is on the Eliot House Committee Kohn is a graduate of Deefield Academy, is concentrating in government at Harvard, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He served with the Merchan Marine in World...