Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mere cold facts will tell an eloquent tale." At the Grand Palais in Paris, he and other delegates were working 15 hours a day last week to finish Western Europe's response to the Marshall approach. They had little time for anything but the cold facts. The conference bureau had not sold a theater seat in two weeks. This strict attention to business had produced some results. One delegate reported on the conference's biggest achievement...
...oldest baubles, the diamond, may help protect him against his newest peril. This week the U.S. Bureau of Standards announced that diamonds, size for size, are 1,000 times more sensitive to dangerous radiation than the famous Geiger counter...
...glad to do business with their Latin American neighbors. Before the war, Canada's trade with Latin America was a piddling one-half of 1% of her total foreign commerce. By 1946 it had jumped to 5.1%, amounted to $218,290,000. It is still growing. The Dominion Bureau of Statistics reported last week that in July Canada's exports to Latin America totaled $9,366,000, against $6.806,000 for July...
...Bureau mounts its diamonds (which must be more colorless and flawless than good grade jewelry stones) between two small brass contacts. One contact is charged with 1,000 volts of electricity. When an alpha, beta or gamma ray hits the diamond, it knocks an electron off one of the carbon atoms of which the diamond is composed. Propelled by the pressure of the 1,000 volts, the electron darts along one of the straight channels which run between the atoms of a diamond crystal. This motion sets up an electrical pulsation that can be detected easily by various standard instruments...
...diamond acts very much like a Geiger counter, whose knocked-free electrons dart across a partial vacuum. But the Bureau's diamond counter will last longer, and it can be made much smaller than a Geiger counter. The little sensitive crystal can be tucked away in industrial equipment, or even inside the human body to measure the penetration of radiation, as in the X-ray treatment of cancer...