Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable, all their work is built in the rigorously modern style still referred to as "crackpot" by unobserving standpatters. Among some of the firm's major jobs: the Ohio State University Medical Center, a vinegar plant and warehouse for H. J. Heinz Co., and the entire town of Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...popularly well-known men in the group is McSpaden, who is now Sales Promotion Director for Palm Beach clothes. He retired from professional golf five years ago after winning some 40 championships. Another well-known figure is James H. Lum, who was Executive Director of the Clinton Laboratory in Oak Ridge from 1945 to '47, Before Oak Ridges he spent four years working in Australia; is now with the Monsonto Chemical Company...
...Ohio Valley plant (cost: $1 billion) will separate explosive U-235 from natural uranium by the gaseous-diffusion process which is used at Oak Ridge and will also be used at the plant now being built near Paducah, Ky. The other AEC production plants at Hanford, Wash. and on the Savannah River are entirely different: they are reactors that make plutonium (and may make tritium for hydrogen bombs) through nuclear reactions caused by free neutrons given off by fissioning uranium. The fact that the AEC is building both kinds of plants suggests that...
...post 8000 feet up in the Andes, at Arequipa, Peru. This one was abandoned because of long periods of cloudy weather. The Astronomy Department now operates from the central observatory on Summer House Hill on Concord Avenue. It also has a subsidiary station at Agassia (Dormerly Oak Ridge station) in Massachusetts two high altitude sites in Colorado, three stations in New Mexico, and at the Boyden station on Harvard Kopje on the high veldt of interior South Africa...
...Agassiz Oak Ride station was established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. It holds many of the instruments removed from Summer House Hill when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location too poor for optimum conditions for astronomical observations. This station contains a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch reflector, and a 61 inch telescope, the largest east of Ohio. The "Ridge" is now headquarters for Harvard's surveys of the Northern skies. The Harvard seismographic equipment is also at the Agassiz Oak...