Word: kingdon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat the gas & rubber shortage Manhattan's Mrs. Kingdon Gould took the old family carriages out of moth balls, sent Daughter Edith to buy a pair of horses. Inexperienced Daughter Edith came back with a pair of brewery-truck-model Percherons...
...KINGDON HARVEY...
Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Douglas C. Stenerson '42, St. Paul, Minn.; Robert B. Stokley '41, Galion, O.; Malcolm W. P. Strandberg '41, Tacoma, Wash.; Kingdon W. Swayne '41, George School, Pa.; Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, Excelsior, Minn.; Elmer H. Taylor '42, Frederick, III.; Richard N. Thomas '42, Omaha, Nebr.; James B. Tobias '41, Fremont, O.; Hugh G. Voorhies, Jr. '42, San Diego, Calif.; John A. Washington '43, Clarksburg, W. Va.; Robert K. Weary '43, Junction City, Kans.; George W. Webber '42, Des Moines, Ia.; Richard L. Weinberg '43, Memphis, Tenn.; Emanuel G. Weiss '41, Elkins Park...
Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...