Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Percival C. "Dobie" Keith, a ruddy-faced, blue-eyed engineer with a lock of brown hair over his eye, who bossed the Kellex Corp., the "industrial cooperative" that designed and operated Oak Ridge...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...
Plant before Design. In the Oak Ridge plant, 6,000 centrifugal pumps were needed which would send a viciously corrosive gas through pipes. There was no time to design such a pump, then tool up a factory to produce it. So Allis-Chalmers took on the job of building the factory first, tooling it up and training the workers, then waiting for the pump to be designed...
Which town will get the county seat? Which city is the biggest, busiest and best? Rich and raucous is the American tradition of debate on such matters. It sounded a little odd last week in the oak-paneled, semi-ecclesiastical room of London's Church House, where world statesmen were considering where the world's capital-the permanent seat of UNO-should...
...scientists of Oak Ridge, Tenn. are interested in atomic bombs. They are also interested in science itself. Last week they combined both interests in a telling blast against U.S. military authorities who had just destroyed Japan's cyclotrons. They put the destruction in a class with the German burning of the Louvain Library in 1914 and 1940 as a "wanton and stupid . . . crime against mankind. . . . Men who cannot distinguish between the usefulness of a research machine and the military importance of a 16-in. gun have no place in positions of authority...