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...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...
...plan is not new, nor the inevitable or feasible answer to every company's problems. But some such way, said Johnston, must be found to do the same thing throughout U.S. industry. He concluded: "Aggressive ambition on the part of the individual is the lifeblood of capitalism. The more of it we can churn into action, the better for us. The two systems of capitalism and socialism will compete throughout the world for the minds of men. The two systems are on trial. In the final analysis that system which provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number...
...halfheartedly supported the Administration's May-Johnson bill, but insisted that its concept of total control should not be the "pattern for the future." Some enforced secrecy was obviously necessary, he said. But he added: "The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics...
...China, Manchuria and Korea. U.S. analysts concluded last week that Japan now had only a single unbroken line of communication with the mainland -the one from northeastern Korean ports, across the Sea of Japan, to small ports on the northwest coast of Honshu. The great funnel through which the lifeblood of imports was once transfused into Japan was already fouled with wrecked ships sunk by U.S. forces...
Enterprising Publisher Howe (son of Kansas' late, famed Editor Ed Howe) knows that local items are the lifeblood of a small-town paper, counts that day lost when the Globe-News does not carry at least 100. He began his tip contest four years ago, when the draft began to take his experienced reporters...