Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians are producing plutonium, they have really learned the atomic trade, perhaps with the help of German scientists. Once they accumulated enough fissionable material (U-235 or plutonium), it should not have been hard to make an atomic bomb. In quantities below a certain amount (the "critical mass," sometimes estimated at around 26 lbs.), neither material will explode. But when two such masses are brought together, forming more than a "critical mass," they explode spontaneously...
Earth Waves. But underwater bombs and bombs exploded on a tower above ground smack the earth hard, as high airbursts do not. Seismic (earthquake) waves, shooting off in all directions, can be picked up at tremendous distances. Earth waves from Test Baker were detected by many seismographs on the U.S. Pacific coast, 4,300 miles away. Even the Alamogordo bomb, exploded on a loo-ft. tower, sent out earth waves that were picked up at Tinemaha, Calif., 710 miles away. Specially sensitive seismographs, ringed around the U.S.S.R., could pick up earth waves from a bomb exploded underwater or reasonably near...
...slashed its prices from 11 to 15%, sold out its entire U.S. stock of 1,000 cars in the first two days after devaluation, promptly ordered 500 more. But such price cuts seemed likely to last only in those British goods, such as autos, which the British were finding hard to sell...
...this reason, the police will also tag cars during the day that are parked on the wrong side of streets allowing parking on only one side. But police will be "doubly hard" on night parking. Captain McCarthy promised...
...least the Crimson soccer players enjoyed themselves Saturday afternoon, for Bruce Munro's team didn't have to light very hard to whip Tufts 4 to 1, in the opening game of the season...