Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instruments, they could detect no radiation. Said the A.E.C. report: Earle had never been exposed to radioactive material while working at Oak Ridge. (Other sources reported that he had left there an alcoholic-which might account for his fatal liver disorder.) Nonetheless, A.E.C. was determined to get to the bottom of the story for the sake of its workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag: on advice of counsel Earle's family refused to permit further examination of his body. At week...
...plane glided in, it narrowly missed the great, fog-shrouded tanks. A little way beyond, it hit the soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks to draw the bodies of Nelson Pell and his passengers from the fire...
...steel sphere and its contents will be heavy enough to sink. To keep it from sinking right to the bottom of the sea and staying there, it will be suspended from streamlined aluminum containers filled with aviation gasoline, which is considerably lighter than water and almost incompressible. Fully loaded, the bathyscaphe will weigh about 40 tons. Because the winches of the mother ship cannot support this weight, the gasoline and half the ballast must be added after the bathyscaphe is in the Water...
Poison for Mrs. Attlee. At bottom, the crisis was economic. Britain was still a land of national hunger. British labor, especially the all-important miners, were simply not producing in sufficient volume. Britain was buying more goods abroad than she sold; the money with which to make up that deficit (the $3.75 billion U.S. loan) was running out much faster than it should; Britain had only $1 billion left and it was going fast. But suddenly from the steadily mounting pressure of impoverishment sprang a political crisis...
They celebrated the occasion with "a few short cheers for the Crimson" until a morning after headache transformed the historic New Haven battleground into the bottom of the soggy Lamont excavation of the George A. Fuller construction company...