Word: crew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening its first season as a major sport the lightweight crew will meet MIT on the Charles River course this afternoon. Crimson coach Joe Brown said the outcome is impossible to predict since this is the first race for both schools...
Dials & Smoking. Dr. Dobbins' report noted many oddities. At sea, he said, the danger that radiation from the reactor which drives the sub may damage the crew's health is negligible, so effective is its lead shielding. But in port (where pre-atomic subs represented no hazard) the danger skyrockets: part of the shielding may be removed for nucleonics technicians to work on the power plant. Another oddity: though detectable radiation gets into the air and might conceivably build up to health-hazard proportions, it does not come from the reactor. The heavy villains are the radium-painted...
...monoxide danger has become worse. Reason: while the diesel sub had to have fresh outside air blown through on an average of every twelve hours, the atomic sub uses its original quota of air as long as it stays down. And that air is fouled by crew members' smoking, which in time can produce a higher monoxide level than did the old diesels. Both carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide must be removed, by elaborate nitration processes, as fast as possible. When the two gases are present together, even in amounts that would be safe if considered separately, the monoxide...
...disregarded because they were periodically flushed out. Example: leaks of a common refrigerant gas (its identity remains a Navy secret) used in subs for many years. With Nautilus and Seawolf staying below for days and even weeks, the concentration of this gas built up to a point where many crew members had irritation in their respiratory systems; undetected and uncorrected, it would have become a definite health hazard...
...like a shy volcano, boiling and boiling but afraid of boiling over") antes up $10,000, and Bill gets his start in exported dyestuffs. He operates from a loft in an egg-crate factory, and his business has more downs than ups, but Bill meets a picaresque crew of characters from mad chemists to eccentric fellow entrepreneurs to weird office help...