Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major department stores, Christmas planning starts just about the time that the kids are breaking their first Christmas toys-the day after Christmas past. The long preparations begin with studies of sales slips, to determine what sold well, what proved a bomb. After that come committee meetings, buyers' meetings, salesgirl meetings. By mid-January, buyers are packed and jetting off around the U.S. and to faraway countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items...
When the Soviet 50-megaton test-bomb exploded on Novaya Zemlya last October, it set the earth's whole atmosphere vibrating. Last week in London, Seismologists Eric Carpenter, George Harwood and Thomas Whiteside reported how the bomb waves looked when they were recorded on the microbarograph at Britain's Atomic Weapons Research Establishment...
...bomb exploded at 8:33 a.m. British time. By 11:44 a.m., the first air wave reached England, having taken 3 hr. 11 min. to travel from Novaya Zemlya at the speed of sound-about 700 m.p.h. At 4:40 p.m. on the next day, the barograph pen jiggled again, recording the air waves that had taken the long path and circled the earth in the opposite direction and approached England from the southwest. At ten minutes past midnight on Nov. 1, the first wave swept over England again, making almost as strong a record as on its first trip...
...explosion of the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa sent out air waves that registered easily on the crude barographs of the period. Big as the Soviet bomb was, its waves were far weaker than the volcano's, but the time they took to circle the earth was almost exactly the same: 36 hr. 27 min. Small variations in their speed were due to varying winds and temperatures. Carpenter is now putting the Soviet bomb test to unexpected and peaceful use: he is asking the world's scientists to send him copies of their barograph records so that he can study...
...capacity crowd at the open Tocsin meeting responded enthusiastically to speeches by Goldmark, Albert R. Meyer '63, and Gerald Holton, professor of Physics. After showing a film of the English "ban-the-bomb" march from London to Aldermaston in 1958, Goldmark remarked, "We are those people...