Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clutter of radio equipment in his bedroom. At 4:27 in the morning (P.W.T.), listening to the dit-dah-dah of fast Morse, he began transcribing a Domei News Agency broadcast: "The Japanese Government are ready to accept. . . ." At the same time, in a white frame house in Portland, Ore., an FCC monitor picked up the same exciting news -Japan was officially offering to surrender...
Said La Bine: "As I looked over the shore, I noticed a great wall there was stained with cobalt bloom. . . . Following along, I found tiny dark pieces of ore probably the size of plums. Looking more closely, I found the vein. I chipped it with my hammer, and here it was pitch blende." At that time, pitchblende was famed as a source of radium. Neither La Bine nor anyone else could then guess the greater significance of his find...
...been working behind barbed wire and under armed guard, clearing land and building an atomic bomb "pilot plant." As for the Government's Eldorado seizure: in Great Bear Lake's deposits of pitchblende, Canada possesses one of the world's greatest stores of uranium-bearing ore - the ore from which the atomic energy is derived. Said the Government: it was necessary to seize it "to guarantee a Government supply...
...make a few jokes. Nobody dared mention what was upper most in his mind. Over the air came the colorless voice of the Moscow spokesman : the subway was progressing nicely; a Party conference was in session. He read off figures concerning the housing campaign and the latest total of ore production. And then, without any change of tone: 'Gamarnik, ex-member of the Central Committee of the Party, fearing that his anti-Soviet machinations would be unmasked, has committed suicide. Weather report: the Central Observatory forecasts for tomorrow. . . .' " Barmine "walked out into the cool night...
Just Right. In Portland, Ore., steaming passengers on a stifling city bus found that all the heaters were going full blast. The driver felt fine, explained that he was just back from long service in the sweltering Pacific...