Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman got ready to offer the world's scientists free access to an atomic byproduct-the radioisotopes produced in Oak Ridge's atomic piles, generally considered the most important aid to medical research since the invention of the microscope...
...smiling U.S. consul looked over Bill Dickman's completed papers, handed him his visa and wished him luck. Bill sold his car for $900. Christine Dickman's father & mother, who were going along too, sold their house. Then all of them boarded a Great Northern train for Oak Grove...
...Associated Press story from Fort Worth, Tex. reported the death of one Wilton Rhodes Earle, 39, onetime accountant at the atomic bomb plant at Oak Ridge. Said the A.P., quoting an "autopsy surgeon": Earle had died of atomic radiation to which he was exposed at Oak Ridge...
When A.E.C. experts hastily examined the body (reportedly after it was in the coffin) with their own instruments, they could detect no radiation. Said the A.E.C. report: Earle had never been exposed to radioactive material while working at Oak Ridge. (Other sources reported that he had left there an alcoholic-which might account for his fatal liver disorder.) Nonetheless, A.E.C. was determined to get to the bottom of the story for the sake of its workers' morale and its touchy recruitment problem. But A.E.C.'s chief medical adviser, dispatched to Fort Worth, ran into a major snag...
...right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...