Word: geigers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts: because Earle had complained of radiation sickness, the doctor had borrowed an old Geiger counter from Texas Christian University and reported that Earle's body was emitting "gamma rays." But the doctor found that Earle's death was due not to radiation but to acute hepatitis (inflammation of the liver...
...around them. But disciples of new prophets, managers of young Dempseys and mothers of prodigies usually experience nothing more painful than lofty anticipation when the public ignores their secret. Last week, by virtue of the same sort of faith in a sure thing, thousands of U.S. citizens reacted like Geiger counters to a completely unradioactive fragment of political news:' Minnesota's Republican ex-Governor Harold Stassen had started on a vacation...
...Geiger counter. 5. Radarclave...
...growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds fly out of the box like a swarm of moths...
Uranium is not an uncommon element, but known big deposits are few. If a prospector should find one of these, his troubles would have only begun. The U.S. (like nearly every nation) regards uranium as strictly Government property. At the end of every Geiger rainbow, an FBI man is waiting...