Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William L. Graham, 46, back from starting a brush fire for capitalism with his modest Private Enterprises Inc. in India (TIME, Aug. 12), who in three days in San Francisco lined up a U.S. fund of $250,000 and got an offer from Indian Industrialist and Banker G. D. Birla to match the sum, thus making half a million dollars available for small business ventures in India...
...Style Water. Workers and scientists in protective clothing played streams of carbon dioxide into the cooling channels, but the fire in the uranium did not go out. Police were alerted to evacuate the area, as scientists debated whether it would be safe to put out the strange, new-style fire with old-style water. The decision was made to go ahead, and hoses poked into the reactor soon put out the fire. The alert was canceled, and the single casualty, Worker Stan Ritson, who got unpleasantly radioactive, was scrubbed over and over and sent home with all his body hair...
...alarm spread across Britain and refused to be checked by soothing statements from the Atomic Energy Authority. Air that has passed through the Windscale reactors is blown up a 416-ft. chimney that is capped by filters to keep radioactive dust from escaping into the atmosphere. The uranium fire deep in the reactor was too much for them. Some of its deadly "smoke" got loose, and a good bit settled on the surrounding countryside, now known in Britain as "Geiger Gulch...
...team was losing too many games; too many fans were staying away from the ballpark; even the sportswriters were unhappy. In the tradition of big-league baseball there was nothing for the Cleveland Indians to do but fire their field manager, Kerby Farrell. But General Manager Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Fame slugger, had already done that. It was his biggest mistake. He had left no one to fire but himself. Last week the Indians did just that...
...secret," crowed Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf. "I'll say no more." He didn't have to. Whatever his secret was, it touched off a fire under his injury-ridden Boilermakers. Sophomore Quarterback Ross Fichtner, starting his first game, called his shots like a pro; Fullback Bob Jarus was a one-man wrecking crew. Between them, they clanged out a 20-13 victory over the top-ranked Spartans of Michigan State...