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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elements were formed when neutrons from the explosion hit atoms of uranium 238 and were captured by its nucleus. In the case of Element 99, the U-238 captured 15 neutrons and emitted seven beta particles (electrons). Each beta particle emitted meant that a captured neutron had changed into a proton. So the U-238, which had 92 protons and 146 neutrons, turned into Element 99 with 99 protons and 154 neutrons. To form Element 100 (100 protons and 155 neutrons), the U-238 captured 17 neutrons and lost eight beta particles. The scientists suggested that Element 99 be named...
...herself went cruising last year on the Achilleus' sister ship Agamemnon (TIME. Sept. 13, 1954), was not invited. "I decided not to have any Greeks," said Elsa. "because there's no point in taking coals to Newcastle, and we wanted people who would spend money, which meant no royalty, since royalty, alas, has no money...
...project, Steiger insisted on personal control of all details, called in experts to advise him on unfamiliar technological problems. His blueprints for the Geneva laboratory are uncompromisingly functional, yet harmonious. The steel and reinforced concrete buildings will be low, plain, widely spaced, and devoid of eyesores. Ruling out eyesores meant redesigning many installations. For example, physicists assumed that the control room for the synchrocyclotron should be perched atop the giant magnet; Steiger insisted that, for esthetic reasons, the controls should be in a shielded room on the ground floor, adjacent to the magnet. "There's no reason," he explains...
...double-profiled portrayals of totem gods were apparently adapted from images first painted on both sides of the prow of a war canoe. Totem gods like Killer Whale were sometimes pictured with their entrails revealed to show lesser animals which they had swallowed. Even the massive totem poles were meant as seriously as medieval coats of arms to display family crests and famous ancestors. Such gods as Bear and Wolf might be decorated with fur and shredded cedar-bark wigs. Other masks were provided with movable lower jaws or a concealed inside image...
Gains on the Rails. The summer of prosperity meant that Americans could and did enjoy themselves. Resorts were packed with vacationers. At home they snapped up more airconditioners, bought more motorboats, spent more money fixing up homes and lawns and gardens. In mid-August the nation's department stores showed a 6% sales gain over the comparable week for 1954. In fact, spending was so free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work...