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...matter how well braced he was for the new defense program, John Citizen was going to be hard put not to emit at least one wild and profane cry when he got the word. Best Washington guess at the next national budget: approximately $73 billion, or $20 billion more than this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Don't Look Now, But ... | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

...also done work on how atoms emit light and how energy escapes from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whipple Follows Menzel As Astronomy Chairman | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

...Strauss, could not be controlled, but would decrease steadily according to the "half-life" of the radioactive material. But such a "storage battery" might have one big advantage. It would not give off, necessarily, the dangerous neutrons and penetrating gamma rays which leak from atomic piles. Some active isotopes emit only radiations that can be stopped by comparatively thin shielding. There might be no deadly byproducts, either, to endanger the neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Hints | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Cruel & Unusual. In Providence, Inventor Vincent de Cesaris was working on a burglar alarm which would emit the recorded shrieks of Cinemactress Lauren Bacall and Chanteuse Hildegarde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...quilt thrown over a slept-in bed," summer covers the cemetery of the mammoth and the woolly rhinoceros with plaids of buttercups, poppies and bluebells. Millions of birds and clouds of mosquitoes take to the air; and the warmed glaciers, calving with "that large utterance of the early Gods," emit the drifting icebergs which plague the waters of the North Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out in the Cold | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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