Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small orange flame licked the base of the rocket. With a throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail of smoke behind...
Atomic energy, discussions of its significance in peace and war, and a demonstration of the basic principles of chain reacting piles will feature Boston's "Salute To The Atomic Age," at which Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, will act as chairman in the Hotel Bradford Ballroom Monday night at 8 o'clock...
...world shared in this chain of bestiality. For years it knew about the concentration camps. "Yet we did nothing . . . until forced to fight for Buchenwald's and Europe's liberation. . . . And even in this year of peace and victory, we have let the concentration camp live...
Last week conservative old Thompson's got a new owner, the young, fast-growing Sheraton Corp., owner of a $22 million hotel chain. Sheraton paid $1,000,000 for a controlling interest (51%) in Thompson's ten-restaurant chain...
...property rights were swept aside. In the atomic field there would be no such thing as private ownership. The commission would be sole owner or would acquire ownership of all facilities the U.S. might need for the production of fissionable material; of all materials capable of producing an atomic chain reaction; of property containing source materials. It would be authorized to: produce fissionable material with its own facilities or make contracts for production; mine and refine supplies; distribute fissionable materials and byproducts; and under the direction of the President produce atomic bombs, bomb parts...