Word: hurlbut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simulate these peculiar conditions, California scientists use a peculiar apparatus: a "molecular beam" developed by Physicist Franklin C. Hurlbut. First, all possible air is pumped from the stainless steel tube (which takes a week of pumping). At one end of the tube is a small "source chamber" containing nitrogen gas. When this is heated by a furnace, the nitrogen molecules pick up kinetic energy and zigzag through the chamber at great speed. Those that happen to be shooting in the right direction pass through a hole one-fiftieth of an inch in diameter that leads to the evacuated tube...
...What are the Republicans waiting for? We need a successful businessman in Washington, not a politician . . . (MRS.) DENISON HURLBUT HATCH Riverside, Conn...