Word: doorknobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squash Court Pile. Production of plutonium was probably no more important, but vastly more dramatic. On a squash court under the stands of University of Chicago's football field, a strange apparatus took form. It was an oblate spheroid (doorknob shape), built up of graphite bricks with lumps of uranium or uranium oxide imbedded in their corners. This was the world's first chain reaction "pile"-a uranium "lattice" and a graphite "moderator." If it worked according to Dr. Fermi's theories, it would produce the first chain reaction ever set up on earth...
Undertaker's Doorknob...
Please send us an undertaker's doorknob (TIME, Jan. 29). No, don't bother; just describe one to us, and tell us where it differs from any other doorknob...
...animal behind the fence at the Lansing (Mich.) zoo was an ancient beast with an eye like an undertaker's doorknob, but there was point-free meat all over him. Ed Butters, who had gone over to Lansing from his farm at Coldwater, had read all about buffalo, and now he had seen one. Last week, 14 months later, steak-hungry New Yorkers were buying the first carload of Butters' buffalo at prices as high as $1.25 a pound...
...airplane manufacture, his youngest brother's service in the Navy, his younger sister's Washington work for the Red Cross. It was extremely affecting talk. Even hard-boiled reporters were moved. One old newshawk, tough as a boot, confessed to a throat lump big as a doorknob. Willkie himself had wet eyes. At long last, and perhaps in spite of himself, Wendell Willkie was finding out that a Presidential candidate must do more than grind away at his ax: he must dramatize himself...