Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...K-25, the $650 million plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., production of Uranium 235 for atomic and hydrogen bombs has never stopped for a second since the process first began ten years ago. In the 44-acre building, which uses as much power as New York City, thousands of motors pump fiercely corrosive gases through endless microscopic filters in a steady surging flow. No one knows what would happen if the process stopped. Last fortnight, the Atomic Energy Commission feared that a strike of 3,500 employees might cause a ruinous stoppage. But the strike was quickly settled. Last week...
...Mitchell's request, Goldberg called Oak Ridge to sound out Elwood Swisher, president of the striking C.I.O. Gas. Coke & Chemical Workers Union. Next day while the fact-finding board hurriedly began hearings and anxious supervisors kept K-25 bubbling. Swisher flew to Washington to see C.I.O. President Walter Reuther. At 7:30 p.m., Reuther called Mitchell for a conference; they met at the Labor Department. Until 2 a.m. Mitchell listened to the union's aims and grievances (poor housing and community facilities, bad relations with K-25's operator, Union Carbide & Carbon). Next day he checked...
When Physicist K. G. Jansky of Bell laboratories discovered in 1932 that he could pick up radio waves from objects in space, he founded the exciting science of radio astronomy. As the sailors of antiquity had made the most of ancient astronomical findings, the U.S. Navy began studying radio astronomy to see whether a celestial radio signal might be something to steer by. Recently, the Naval Research Laboratory, working with the Collins Radio Co. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, revealed some details of a radio sextant that can navigate ships by radio waves from space...
...convention session, John K. Norton of Columbia's Teachers College apparently spoke for the majority when he lashed back at those who believe that the "new education" is leading the nation into an intellectual retreat. "I make no apology," said he, "for bringing interest into educational method ... I also offer no apology for the belief that modern education should have purposes which take account of social as well as individual needs." Having stated their complaints, the teachers proceeded to state some positions...
...Schenley, Weil will work under Board Chairman Lewis Rosenstiel and President Ralph Heymsfeld. ¶ Arthur K. Watson, 35, youngest son of Thomas J. Watson, board chairman of International Business Machines Corp., moved up from vice president to president of World Trade Corp., the I.B.M...