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Word: lamina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb dropped on Japan was made of uranium 235. It is known that the output of uranium 235 amounts to 400 grams daily at the magnetic separation plant at Clinton . . . Alek handed us a platinum with 162 micrograms of uranium 233 in the form of oxide in a thin lamina." Zabotin told Moscow that in London Alek would be working at King's College and arranged for him to be met on the street in front of the British Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Alek Goes Free | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business as in his father's day. Soon Baby was making the army's machine guns, buying copper and bauxite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Life with Baby | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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