Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berroeta expected to cross the Channel in eleven hours or less, but after 25 minutes, unable to see Dover's chalk cliffs ahead, he gave it up, promised to try again within ten days...
...Government development and control of atomic energy. The bill would 1) set up a five-man civilian board to conduct atomic research on an annual budget of $3,500,000 and 2) supervise operations of Canada's three uranium plants at Eldorado Mine, N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left up to Canada's atom bomb partners...
...Chicago's tough South Side, Chuck Luckman sold soap to seven of the first eight stores he visited. (Later he quipped: "If I couldn't sell soap in a dirty slum area I might as well quit.") He went on to chalk up an office sales record...
High priest of the inconsolable Dolorists was chalk-faced Julien Teppe, who believes that only those who suffer cosmic misery can see reality clearly. In his 43-page Manifesto of Dolorism he discovered that "even a vulgar intestinal disturbance, when analyzed, interpreted, ruminated, and properly meditated, is capable of lifting us to a high universal comprehension . . . engulfing, containing all possible experience...
Other requested items: 1) "a sample of Uranium 235, with details as to the plant [at Port Hope, Ont.] where it is produced"; 2) details of the Canadian atomic-energy plant at Chalk River, Ont.; 3) the contents of telegrams passing into and out of the Canadian External Affairs Department...