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Divorced. Margaret Hughes Wright, 44, heiress to the Hughes tank & boiler fortune of Warren, Ohio; by Philip L. Wright, 47, head of a small Cleveland steel plant; after 21 years of marriage two children; in Cleveland. Blaming the break-up on her drinking, the judge awarded Wright principal custody of the children and $100,000, something of a record in alimony to a husband...
...data released will not be up to date. The newest reactor to be described in detail is HYPO (for High Power), the Los Alamos "Water Boiler" which went into operation in December 1944. A lot of uranium has fissioned since then. In the guarded centers of the AEC's "technical areas" are more advanced reactors. But HYPO is effective enough, comparatively cheap and simple...
...capitalist system." The son of Swedish immigrants (his father was a blacksmith), he won scholarships to Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology and Ohio's Miami University, later a teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary) at Crawford's death...
...ears cannot hear them, the pulses of a bat's sonar are surprisingly loud. When Dr. Griffin held his microphone three or four inches from the mouth of a pulsing bat, it registered a "sound pressure" of about 60 dynes per square centimeter (the sound pressure in a boiler shop: about 25 dynes). If human ears were tuned to bat frequencies, says Dr. Griffin rather proudly, a bat flying near to one's head would sound as loud as a fighter airplane...
...Boiler," a one-act satire on play writing, by Alice Gerstenderg, and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals," a comedy by James M. Barrie, set in London during the First World War, will both be given by the freshmen on April...