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...nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-3? | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...Bronx, where 22 people have been bitten by rabid dogs in the last few weeks. Though there have been no deaths, New York City (which has the densest canine population in the world-600,000 dogs, 30,000 dog bites a year) ordered that all stray Bronx dogs be destroyed. Promptly Bronx citizens beat up all the dogcatchers, one so badly that he had to stay home next day. After that, the dogcatchers had police protection. When 812 Bronx dogs (80 with licenses) had been destroyed, feeling ran so high that the city set aside a vacant building where licensed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Dog! | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...greatest fire does not always accompany the densest smoke. The national corporations make plenty of smoke, but most seniors find employment in the relatively smaller companies. Here, too, the Placement Office has its contacts. Few representatives from these companies will be sent to the College, but job orders will come by mail and telephone and interviews for seniors are then arranged at the company's offices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 3/20/1940 | See Source »

From Jamaica the Commission sailed eastward along the crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH WEST INDIES: New Deal for Dungheaps | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Millstadt Volunteer Fire Department will answer all alarms clad in their pajamas. The style of these garments will be left to the individual tastes of the various fire fighters with my recommendation for the selection of very gaudy colors, which will make identification simple even in the densest smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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