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LITTLE Del Northway, 4, his parents and his dog Peggy were social outcasts in Houston last week. For a cruel situation that may become commonplace in the Atomic Age, see SCIENCE, Plague of Iridium...
Little Del Northway, 4, of Houston was not happy. The kids would not play with him. He ran to his mother crying, "Why are they mean to me?" Mrs. Northway was not happy either. None of her neighbors had called on her, she said, "since the men with the Geiger counters came." Her bit of Houston was still trying to adjust itself to an accident that may become commonplace in the Atomic...
...trouble began March 13 when H. E. Northway, Del's father and manager of the Houston plant of M. W. Kellogg Co., was opening a shipment of intensely radioactive pellets of iridium 192, which Kellogg's nuclear division uses to take X-ray pictures of heavy metal objects. Helped by Jackson McVey and two other men, and working with remote-control apparatus from behind a thick shield, Northway opened the 800-lb. shipping container, took out the sealed metal canister full of deadly pellets and put it on a remotely controlled lathe. When the lathe's tool...
...called in experts of Tracerlab Inc. to check and decontaminate. He did not report the spill to the Atomic Energy Commission. The other Kellogg people tried to keep it quiet too-no easy job. The Tracerlab men with their instruments attracted unavoidable attention, and rumors flew thick. Both the Northway and McVey houses proved to be radioactive. So were the hair and one paw of Peggy, the Northways...
...years later tried to corner the auto manufacturing business. (Henry Ford agreed to sell for $8,000,000, but at the last minute Durant's bankers backed away from the $2,000,000 down payment.) Durant settled instead, in 1908, for a combine that included Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, Northway and Oakland, and called it the General Motors Co. Detroit called it "Durant's folly" until, in 1910, G.M. sold $34 million worth of automobiles and netted $10.5 million (since it was before taxes, literally...