Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known as the Great Salt Lake deposited natural salts in the land, leaving .4 of i% of salts, more than is permissible for many crops. Nick's experiment simulated Utah soil, but he failed to import Utah climate, which provides for the growth of Utah's huge stalks of crisp, white, stringless sweetheart celery...
...together of two or more lumps of explosive material to form one lump which is over the "critical size" and which instantly explodes. The possibility that the secret might be discovered by some other nation creates no immediate dangers, because at this stage of the bomb's development huge production plants (which exist in the U.S. alone) are necessary. But over the next ten or 15 years the prospect was one in which even the bomb's first victims found a bitter grain of comfort...
With $5,000 he had saved, he formed the North American Pharmacal Co. (drug products) in Chicago. Three years later he prospected a new field: the small-town drugstore. He dazzled the outlanders of Sterling, Ill. with a garish, big-city drugstore, complete with huge drug and cosmetic departments, a well-stocked food section. It was such a hit that he moved into five other towns, now has a chain of 54 stores in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota...
P.G.C. Delivers the Goods. Somehow or other, the P.G.C.'s eccentric American-Iranian production unit built two huge General Motors assembly plants in the heart of the desert, and even got so that it could put a truck together in five minutes flat. P.G.C. engineers carried on from there. Every day bulldozers roared out into the desert, every day the new asphalt highway stretched a few miles farther...
Wherever they went, huge crowds greeted them with banners saying, WELCOME, SCIENTISTS OF THE WORLD! The Soviet press lionized them; Soviet scientists eagerly showed them through their laboratories. Last week, still slightly dazed by their tumultuous reception, U.S. scientists who attended Moscow's international science congress two months ago (TIME, July 2) turned up at a Manhattan meeting to report their impressions. Conclusion: within five to ten years, the U.S.S.R. may well challenge U.S. pre-eminence in science and technology...