Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
...Pittsburgh, lumber was being bought at 30% over the legal price. Boston builders have to pay from $200 to $500 per 1,000 feet for oak flooring; ceiling price is $150. But the peckerwoods have plenty...
...artificial isotopes were made by cyclotrons, and were enormously expensive. The pile produces them much more cheaply, for any substance exposed to the hurricane of neutrons which rages inside the pile quickly becomes radioactive. They are still expensive by ordinary standards, but their cost should fall rapidly. Production at Oak Ridge will be supervised by practical Monsanto Chemical...
Scientists cheered another indication that the Atomic Age was starting to roll. After long delay and soul-searching, the Manhattan District this week agreed to supply qualified customers with about 100 radioactive isotopes produced in its Oak Ridge uranium piles. For chemists, physicists and biologists the isotopes are important scientific tools...
Medicine is but one promising field for the isotopes. Chemists will also use them as "tracers." Physicists will use them as cheap, convenient sources of powerful radioactivity. In many industrial fields-electronics is an obvious case-Oak Ridge's isotopes are certain to stimulate new research...