Word: gammas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ovens, reaction vats, filter presses and decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...
...aside a Northrop Gamma for experiments, last year made a big splash of headlines by coining the word "over-weather." Theory was that at 35,000 ft. it was always clear, always calm, all winds were steady. That this was not entirely the case was presently proved by TWA's crack Test-Pilot Daniel W. ("Tommy") Tomlinson. Burly and devil-may-care, he learned his flying in the Navy's celebrated acrobatic-team of Sea Hawks, of whom he is the sole survivor. Known as "Indian Joe" to the fleet, Tomlinson would stunt at night with lights...
Pilot Tomlinson's most risky and most important substratosphere flight took place last January. Ordered to bring his Gamma to Manhattan for the Aviation Show, he and his assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing...
...same principle underlies a technique, explained last week, for ferreting out defects in thick masses of steel. At the convention of the American Society for Testing Materials in Manhattan, Physicist E. V. Lange of Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...