Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another AEC program is the development of better means of detecting dangerous radiation before it has done any harm. One AEC team is observing Bikini Atoll, where fish, mollusks and even land plants are still concentrating radioactive substances from the A-bombs that exploded there...
...officer of the Naval Reserve on active duty, Berry participated in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll in 1946; earlier in the war he served on a number of committees concerned with medical training for the Armed Forces, the procurement of physicians for military service, and civilian defense...
...Crossroads, none won greater fame than Pig No. 311. A wriggly, 50-lb. shoat, No. 311 was locked in the officers' head (toilet) of the Japanese light cruiser Sakawa. Hours later, after the Sakawa had sunk, No. 311 was found swimming gamely in the radiation-polluted waters of Bikini Lagoon. She was irritable, and had a low blood count, but 'within a month she seemed to have recovered...
...Operations, Crossroads," the official Navy documentary film of the Bikini Tests, will be shown at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D by the Harvard World Federalists as a part of their 'world government month...
...became editor emeritus. But he still goes to the Guide office every day and keeps a watchful eye on the way things are run by his sons. Editor in chief is "P.B. Jr.," 42, who was a correspondent during World War II, later covered the Bikini atomic tests and the United Nations conference at San Francisco (for which he won the Guide's first'Willkie award). President and business manager is brother Thomas W. ("T. W."), 40. The newspaper's philosophy on race relations is still old P.B.'s own: "I am definitely opposed...