Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program to train nuclear engineers for atomic-energy projects like the government's Oak Ridge, Tenn., installation will be offered next year by the Division of Applied Science. Under the program, the Division plans a new half-course that will cover the basic, general problems of nuclear engineering...
Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
This time the secret conclaves around the dark oak table in 10 Downing Street were tense and weighted with concern. Sir Winston told them somberly that since their last meeting in June 1953, the hydrogen bomb had come to dominate the world scene. "Hitler was mad and bad-the Russians are only bad," cracked the old man. "They have far more sense than to start an atomic war which will lead to their own destruction." He predicted that in three years Russia would attain atomic equality with the West. Heretofore, he declared, only U.S. superiority in nuclear weapons has prevented...
...Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations throughout the East have heard the sermons of Preacher James T. Cleland, and the State Department has more than once called on the services of Political Scientist Robert R. Wilson, specialist in international...
Rigid rules are often laid down to try to avoid such problems. Standard Oil of California, for example, classifies every employee from Type One (draperies, wall-to-wall carpeting, walnut desk, etc.) down to Type Four (no private office, oak desk). A big Manhattan company has set up a chart for every contingency in preparation for moving into a new building now under construction. A top-echelon man gets 280 sq. ft., "furnished to taste," with or without private washroom, depending on whether he is a director. Lesser lights will get 210 sq. ft., again furnished to taste...