Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tests on the Minute. Other knowledge has come from studying seismograph records of the U.S.'s great H-bomb tests in the Pacific in 1954. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
Bullen thinks that much better results could be obtained from smallish A-bombs exploded at places selected by seismologists. If they were placed below the earth's surface or under the sea, much more of their energy would turn into useful earth waves. The exact time would be told in advance, so scientists all over the earth could have their instruments tuned to concert pitch. A radio signal might start abreast of each burst of waves. When the earth's gentle, controlled trembling finally quieted down, the scientists would have data for a new understanding of its mysterious...
...View, New Facts. By noon, Simons was up to about 102,000 ft. (exact height is still being checked) and looked upon a view no man had seen before. The horizon was 400 miles away. Overhead the sky was dark. The earth was a lifeless blob delicately dissected by rivers and lakes. Reported Sightseer Simons: "It was as though all the color had been washed...
...ship had no phonographic recorder, so Worthington noted carefully the exact intonations of the noises of that and subsequent eavesdroppings on the whales. Two later voyages with a tape recorder confirmed his memory. "First there was a loud, strong sound," he said last week at Woods Hole, "then this clicking noise. Click. Click. Click. Over and over. I counted 70 in a row. They came as fast as five to a second...
...whatever economic benefit they bring, or fail to bring to farmers, federal farm programs exact a toll in morale. TIME correspondents in all major agricultural regions found farmers who wanted to talk "off the record" about temptations to dishonesty under the program. One Indianan sold the topsoil off a field and put the barren ground into a soil bank; a group of Californians use soil-banked acres to start future fruit orchards. Says Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers...