Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obscure streets, Massachusetts Avenue, Beck reigned in the 1870's and 1880's. Opposite the Union on "Quincy Square," it housed such famous men as Theodore Roosevelt, John Jacob Astor, Jr., and John Pierpont Morgan. Its elaborate suites, properly filled with oak panelling and mahogany furniture, were often passed from father to son to keep the tradition in the family. When Morgan's son, for example, was only four hours old, his father telegraphed a reservation to Beck Hall for young Junius. And it is even said that Walter C. Baylies, vice-president of the newly-formed Edison Electric Company...
...with Claverly for the honor of attracting football players and social elite. Now the western part of Adams House, Randolph in the second decade of the century had everything Claverly could offer--plus a sunny corner on the first floor used as a breakfast room. Panelled in stained oak, this "special cafe" served light breakfasts until noon "to those whose drowsiness keeps them abed after hours...
...seven months the labor situation at the Government's vital Oak Ridge and Paducah atomic-energy plants had been as explosive as an Abomb. The C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
...year, said Lodge, the U.S. will establish a reactor training school to which 30 to 50 foreign scientists will be invited. The Atomic Energy Commission will sponsor courses, open to all nations, in atomic preventive medicine, disposal of atomic wastes, the use of radioisotopes as tracers. Brookhaven, Argonne and Oak Ridge will open to foreign scientists one-to two-year courses in the use of atomic energy in medicine and biology; 150 foreign specialists will visit U.S. cancer research centers. For cooperating nations, the U.S. has built up ten complete libraries of nonclassified atomic publications totaling 300 feet of shelf...
...world's largest power consumer; its Oak Ridge plant alone uses more electricity than the entire state of Texas. The Dixon-Yates contract came about because by 1957 the AEC will need another 600,000 kw. of power for plants in the mid-South. The Administration had a choice of adding a $100 million steam plant to the Tennessee Valley Authority power system or of calling on private enterprise to provide the power...