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Harvard's Sanitary Engineering Department recently recorded 1,000 times the normal radioactivity in Cambridge water. "When we put our Geiger counter to some Cambridge water," Harold A. Thomas, associate professor of Sanitary Engineering, admitted, "it sounded like a bobcat caught in the bushes...
...Geiger counter test on evaporated rain water in the Yard this past winter "sounded like a bobcat backing into a thorn bush," continued Thomas. "Most of the radiation that comes in rain or snow never gets beyond the roof, though any radioactive material that does get in decays very rapidly. There is no significant accumulation of irradiation of any amount in the water," he concluded...
Through the West and Southwest last week, the scrape of shovel, drone of plane and click of Geiger counter heralded the spread of uranium fever. As prospectors kept discovering uranium where no one had bothered to look before, Texas reported its first ore finds. Among the developments...
Indian Head Bonanza. In 1950 Fred decided to buy a Geiger counter. For months he worked overtime at his job as janitor of the local high school in order to accumulate the necessary $100. The day he brought his counter home, he poked it around his backyard rock pile. Immediately, the Geiger counter began to jitter excitedly, but when Fred located the radioactive rock and dug it out, he could not remember where he had found it. For three months he retraced his steps through the hills until at last, on a Sunday afternoon, he discovered the spot where...
...doesn't take a man with a micro scope or a Geiger counter to find the signs of economic slack in Illinois," said Douglas. "I have talked with auto workers...