Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four years of British Socialism, the Tory party last week opened a major campaign to persuade the voters that it was time for a change-but not much change. The Conservatives issued a 68-page booklet called The Right Road for Britain. Its theme was familiar to Americans who remembered how Wendell Willkie and Thomas E. Dewey tried to beat the Roosevelt New Deal. The Tories promised to keep most of the reforms the Labor Party had introduced; but they would carry them out better, and cheaper...
...best way to look for uranium, says the booklet, is with a Geiger counter, now manufactured by dozens of companies and retailing for as little as $54.50. Geiger counters click all the time because of "background radioactivity" caused by cosmic rays and the tiny amounts of radioactive materials present in most rocks. The prospector should first record the "background count"; any increase is interesting. "If the radioactivity of any particular rock is four times the background count," says the handbook, "a sample should be taken...
...radioactive rock does not contain uranium. It may contain thorium (also radioactive), in which the AEC has only a faint interest. The booklet describes a rather complicated process by which the prospector can test his find with ultraviolet light...
...rather plaintive chapter in the Government's booklet answers some questions which the AEC has been getting from would-be prospectors. The Government, it says, will not finance prospectors, nor will it lend or rent Geiger counters. It discourages people who write that they have found a place where their watches or compasses don't work (uranium does not affect watches or compasses). And phosphorescence (from decayed stumps at night) is not a sign that uranium is present...
...Mumble. The Management Club had still more do's & don'ts to offer. It had written them up in a booklet (How to Sell Yourself), which gave everything from a handy list of Seattle industries to how to write an application letter. But most important, said the booklet, "You stand or fall at the interview." Anything from "radical ideas" to a "limp, fishy handshake," could ruin a job hunter's chances. Things not to do during an interview: "Don't interrupt, don't beg, don't be breezy, don't talk too much...