Word: oak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rita Beane of Oak Park, Ill. was accidentally locked out of her house in freezing weather, hammered unavailingly for readmittance. Her father-in-law, a radio amateur, had his earphones clamped on tight, and was too busy talking with a ham in Johannesburg, South Africa to hear her. She stepped to a neighbor's house, telephoned another ham, had him contact Station Z56KD in Johannesburg, which notified her father-in-law that she wanted to get back inside...
Three weeks ago the Atomic Energy Commission cleared Frank Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, for important work at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge. The decision reversed a recommendation of the Commission's own Security Office. It kicked up a load of complaints and charges of "laxity" by columnists, and commentators. And it threw some much-needed attention on the Government's entire security program...
...aspect of it that assumes a man is a Communist simply because his name is linked with Communists is faulty. In Graham's case, such "evidence" was so obviously misleading that the AEC eventually ignored it as inconclusive. With less well-known people, on the Navy Yard draftsman or Oak Ridge chemist level, it is still damning. It would undoubtedly require a lot more work to dig down well past a man's clubs and organizations and friends and find out if he is a Communist or not. But this work is essential. Otherwise we are going to lose...
Ordinary steel rings are put in the AEC's atomic pile at Oak Ridge and "cooked" for a month in neutrons. The process changes part of their normal iron into radioactive iron 59. Packed in 300-lb. lead cases, the "hot" rings are shipped to Richmond, Calif, and stored in a thick-walled closet (called "the cave") in the Research Corp.'s basement...
Locks & Winds. At present, AEC experts explained, this fiercely dangerous stuff is well locked up. The Clinch River flowing near Oak Ridge is less radioactive than many mineral springs whose water is highly prized for drinking. The air outside the Oak Ridge plant is safe too. A man moving to Oak Ridge would get increased radiation equivalent only to the increase he would get (from cosmic rays) if he moved from sea level to an altitude of 5,000 feet, e.g., Denver...