Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bellamy and Larson are still cautious. Radioactive dust, they say, was blown high in the air by the explosion. Carried by the wind, it settled back to earth in a northeasterly area ten miles wide and 100 miles long. In parts of this area, the soil is detectably radioactive as far as six inches down, and the depth of penetration is slowly increasing...
...Communist victory in China changed the political and strategic map of the world; therefore, it required far-reaching policy decisions by the U.S. Last February Secretary of State Dean Acheson postponed these decisions by saying that he would "wait until the dust settles." Last week China's Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung settled the dust; he made an air-clearing statement that disclosed the U.S. already standing at a crossroads which the State Department had hoped it would not reach until the weather got cooler, say in October...
...write a book called The Crisis in the University. Britons have decided that it is one of the most thoughtful, responsible critiques of the British university since John Henry Newman's Idea of a University. By last week Sir Walter's blast had whirled the learned dust along academic corridors in England and made eddies in the intellectual weeklies...
...State Department had not yet decided how to handle that problem. But it was showing signs of retreating from Dean Acheson's "wait -until - the -dust -settles" policy; it was at least and at last beginning to think about Asia. Before he left for Paris, Acheson, after some prodding from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, had ordered Policy-Planner George Kennan to work on the problem. Last week Kennan handed his boss the first tentative outline of what might be done...
Canned Gold. A Manhattan firm, Bache & Co., was doing a good business selling 100-oz. cans of gold dust to investors at $3,945 a can. If the buyer then wanted to sell it to the U.S. Treasury he would lose money on it. The advantage in buying canned gold dust, to hard-shelled citizens who aren't sure that paper money is here to stay, is that it is the only form of gold that the Government lets them hoard. Another hoarder, Alf Ringen, the postmaster of Kindred, N.Dak., rebelled at a 15-year-old government order which...