Word: britain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Margaret Truman, still a booming musical attraction, got an offer from an English firm that wants to book her on a concert tour of Britain...
British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...start of World War II, Blackett became a key man in Britain's scientific war effort. He developed bombsights for the R.A.F. and antiaircraft techniques for the Battle of Britain, became one of Britain's chief contributors to the development of the atomic bomb...
...years U.S. millers have been using in their flour a compound called nitrogen trichloride. It bleaches wheat flour and saves months in the aging process (hence the trade name: Agene). It is now used in 80% of U.S. white flour. Sir Edward Mellanby of Britain's Medical Research Council fed a concentrated diet of highly Agenized bread to dogs he was using in an experiment on nutrition, published the frightening results in the British Medical Journal two years ago. The flour had caused "running fits"; most of the dogs that did not recover in 30 minutes died...
...Earl's Court, Londoners crowded into their first big auto show since war's end. They could look, but few could buy. Since Britain must export 75% of its cars, most of the new models were aimed at U.S. trade. They had the wide grillwork which Britons call "the Dollar Grin." Daimler's pastel green, 150-h.p. convertible, with hand-built body, was the show's most expensive car. In England, with a $10,000 tax, it costs $28,000. U.S. price: about...