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National Selected Morticians, Inc.. a "professional group" with headquarters in Chicago, considered the atomic age and was appalled. The average undertaker has probably never seen a Geiger counter, but it was obvious that he would soon have to face the problem of radioactive "remains." In hushed tones, on tiptoe, and with the little finger sympathetically but gracefully extended, as always, Mortuary Science, the magazine of National Selected Morticians, Inc., prepared the "funeral-service profession" for the worst...
...Trinity summary: Weisenfluth (T) defeated Foster (H) 3-1; Wightman (H) defeated Toland (T) 3-0; Stevens (H) defeated Kelly (T) 3-2; Francis (H) defeated Geiger (T) 3-0; Shepherd (H) defeated Borden (T) 3-1; Stewart (H) defeated Monigomery...
Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...
...spot this "something," they used the ultramodern technique of radioactive tracers. First they grew yeast cells in a solution containing radioactive phosphorus-32, whose uneasy atoms the cells built into certain of their proteins. With a Geiger counter, the scientists could follow these radioactive protein molecules...
Even in well-known lands there is plenty of work to do in geology, botany, zoology. Commercial explorers will look for minerals with all the complex paraphernalia of geophysical prospecting. The most exciting prize now is uranium. The standard equipment of modern explorers will be a Geiger counter...