Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heisenberg points out that all the world's physicists knew, before the war, that atoms of uranium 235 (the rare isotope of uranium) would split in two with a large release of energy. They also knew the theory of a "chain reaction": that splitting atoms give off neutrons which make other uranium atoms split too. These facts were the "secret" of the atomic bomb-a secret open to everybody...
...wife aboard, took off from Washington National Airport this week, two hours after a plane loaded with 22 reporters, photographers, radio and newsreel men. In the press plane was one woman: slight, sharp-tongued, fiftyish May Craig, a grandmother and longtime correspondent for Maine's Gannett newspaper chain. Reporter Craig was one of Harry Truman's few worries of the moment...
Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
James is on the chain of his boss, Sulzberger.* At the present time we cannot consider James's words as his own - they are really the voice of his master-owner - we hope he gets full freedom. But it will come to him only if he replaces Sulzberger as owner, or in case what he calls the Russian conception of press freedom triumphs everywhere...
...union would obey the letter of the law, but it would as soon give up the ghost as the closed shop it had won from the bulk of the U.S. press (some exceptions: the open-shop Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin, John H. Perry's Florida chain...