Word: ever
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's Daily Worker and Poland's Trybuna Ludu. (Russia's Pravda tactfully refrained from sending any message.) But there was no office celebration, and little to celebrate. Circulation was at a low 24,700 daily and 67,000 Sunday, finances were as shaky as ever. And sallow, hard-bitten Editor John Gates, who had trained for journalism by fighting with the loyalists in Spain and helping organize the bloody "Little Steel" strike, was being tried on charges of plotting to overthrow the Government (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Wife: It has caused the only conflict we ever...
Another promising uranium region is the Khamar-Daban Range near Lake Baikal, possibly extending to the Aldan goldfields. It was known in 1914, and has been explored intermittently ever since. Even in the Ukraine, close to Russia's oldest industrial centers, there are excellent indications of uranium. In 1940, A. E. Fersman reported that the pegmatites (coarse-grained granites) of the region are worth intensive study as possible uranium sources...
Atomic energy has been produced in sizable quantities ever since 1942, but so far, not a single kilowatt has been put to practical, peacetime use. The Atomic Energy Commission, smarting from criticism, decided last summer to set up a special "Reactor Development Division" to start the reactors reacting...
...diary has been published in a book which the publishers call "a classic of World War II." In a way it is. Certainly it contains one of the most frightful stories ever printed. A few of his notes suggest the unvarying tone of the whole...