Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered Fermi a few minutes later. Physicist Walter H. Zinn pulled out the Zip rod and tied it carefully. The counters clicked still faster. The graph pen moved up again...
...Pull it to 13 feet, George," commanded Fermi. Physicist George Weil drew the final control rod part way out of the pile. Faster clicked the counters. He drew it out another foot; then another six inches...
Neutrons Away. At 2 o'clock the physicists gathered again in the squash court. One by one, on Fermi's orders, the control rods were withdrawn, the counters clicked faster. The pile was alive with neutrons now; the giant was straining his bonds. But it was not quite a chain reaction. The neutron curve moved up, leveled...
...slump was bigger and more rapid than in last spring's strike because 1) industrial production was so high and stockpiles of components (i.e. parts) so low; and 2) the high production was burning up stockpiles of coal much faster...
...were also due to T.W.A.'s overambitious expansion plans. T.W.A. had increased its payroll to service many foreign routes before T.W.A. had the planes to fly them. Now, the strike had caused the line to cancel orders for 25 new planes and it was shrinking its payrolls even faster than it had expanded; it planned to lay off 3,400 of its 16,000 employes by year's end. Like other transatlantic lines, it was also flying half-empty planes from the U.S. to Europe. Reason: travelers were being scared out of going for fear they could...