Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...Congress in 1946 to take over the Army's atomic energy program. The new commission inherited a uranium plant at Oak Ridge, military laboratories at Los Angeles, a research program mainly directed towards weapon development, and a small supply of atomic bombs. David E. Lilienthal was appointed chairman; the Senate confirmed his appointment after a bitter and vindictive fight...
...shortest and fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge. This leads to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan, Conn., and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...
...three plants originally built to make uranium 235 at Oak Ridge by three different methods...