Word: ironized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnson bill was not supposed to be concerned with international control of atomic power. But its provision for iron secrecy, its original harsh penalties were patently part of an optimistic plan to keep foreign nations . (everyone knew that meant Russia) from making atom bombs. Scientist after scientist turned up to swear that there was no real secret to be kept, to point out that the May-Johnson bill would only throttle scientific research and start a world arms race. Amid all the confusion new bills were .written-last week a Ball bill, a McMahon bill, a Kilgore-Magnuson bill...
...retreating Germans left the Weser grounds littered with the fuselages, fins and working parts of V-bombs. In iron safes were plans for Vergeltungswaffe-4, said to be a giant, radio-controlled rocket capable of being fired from Prague to the Americas. The Germans also left parts of cyclotrons and other equipment for research in nuclear physics...
...important new fact in the China puzzle is that Chinese policy, bursting out of its beleaguered mountain fortresses, has physically arrived at the Great Wall. Beyond lies Manchuria - steel mills, huge reserves of iron ore, coal and magnesite, pulpwood, rich farmland - all the prizes for which the statesmen and economists have yearned. Of immediate importance, destitution or prosperity in Shanghai depends upon getting coal from the North...
...present, the "optical cane" is heavy (9 lbs.) and cannot "see" narrow obstacles such as hanging wires. The Signal Corps intends to iron out all such comparatively minor faults before offering its invention to the blind...
Monkey Business. In Portland, Ore., several monkeys in the zoo found some walnuts, discovered that the natural stain in the husks made a fine cosmetic, painted themselves gaudy greens and golds. In New Orleans, a pet monkey, egged on by two small boys, climbed into an "iron claw" slot machine, garnered $60 worth of clocks, fishing reels, and other knickknacks...