Word: breakups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tory councils, was just shooting the political breeze. But his suggestion was not at all fantastic. No first-rate Liberal Party leader is in sight to take the place of 72-year-old Mackenzie King when he retires or dies, and many politicos see the prospect of a breakup when the party loses the man who has directed it since...
...Article 27, the famed land-for-the-Indians proviso, legalizes breakup of big estates and prohibits division of "small properties." The new amendment, by finally denning small properties, would do away with the confusion that often led gun-toting squatters to move in on peaceful neighbors...
Progress made since the original meeting of 25 delegates convened in New York a week age last Tuesday has exceeded the most far-flung estimates, after almost a week of exhausting sessions averaging ten hours a day, with a breakup into smaller groups each evening to study the city...
...river's edge. Then he began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience had ever before heard anything like it. KFAR in its first coverage...
Energy Profit. Fission was revolutionary, sensational-not only because the heaviest of all elements had been cracked wide open, but because of the tremendous energy profit. Up to then, scientists had always had to put more energy into their projectiles than was released in the breakup. Now, an explosion of about 200,000,000 electron-volts was touched off by idling neutrons of less than one electron-volt. Matter equal to about one-fifth of a neutron's mass was converted into energy according to the Einstein formula...