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The Big Question. How to dispose of the vast amounts of radioactive waste that will accumulate as more & more U.S. atomic ovens go into operation? Soon it may become too dangerous to discharge waste into the air (as the few existing laboratories do now). Radioactive atoms cannot be safely buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Hot to Handle | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Dr. J. E. Rose of the University of Chicago's Argonne Laboratory reported that engineers have considered (and discarded) some elaborate disposal schemes. One was to seal the radioactive atoms in concrete cylinders and drop them into the ocean. No good, says Rose: in 100 years or so the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Too Hot to Handle | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Social service work for the college man does not involve a purely philanthropic proposition with all give and no take. An education designed to dispense a vast fund of technical knowledge but lacking in any practical experience with the social problems undergraduates must face upon graduation is hardly adequate preparation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wheel in a Wheel | 11/1/1947 | See Source »

Out of Luck. So far, Fowler McCormick has not had too much luck with Labor. An 80-day strike last year by the Redlined Farm Equipment and Metal Workers' Union (C.I.O.) shut down eleven of the company's 22 U.S. plants. Only this week 8,000 Harvester workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Reaper's Harvest | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

A civil engineer and marine architect, 43-year-old Gerry Stairs settled in Mahone Bay because he could find no living quarters in Halifax after discharge from the Navy. With little original capital and no office staff except his wife (who is still his secretary), Stairs has worked up his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Boat Boom | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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