Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
Botts in Africa. This well-fed, big-sinewed Cat had grown from a kitten bred in 1904 by Ben Holt of Stockton, Calif. Some of the farms around Stockton were marshy, and Holt spent years trying to build a tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with...