Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each new printing, anywhere from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 words have to be written. Some articles can become obsolete almost overnight (e.g., as late as 1946, EB said that uranium's "chief use is in the ceramic industry"). Other articles merely need touching up. But every article is reexamined at least once a decade...
Vice into Virtue. Then, overnight, as in World War II, the "vice" of bigness became a sudden virtue. To build the hydrogen bomb plant, the Government called in Du Pont, one of antitrust's prime targets. After that, the Administration eased up on trustbusting all around...
...fish of the Columbia have been affected by this phenomenon. Although the radioactive stuff does not seem to hurt them much, they become radioactive enough to "take their own pictures." When a "hot" fish caught near Hanford is laid overnight on a photographic plate, it leaves an impression showing its bones, gills and head glands where the radioactivity has concentrated...
...Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button on the much-talked-about "phantom orders"-which were supposed to put machine-tool factories to work on $750 million worth of war business almost overnight-Harry Truman's planners had been following the policy of gentling defense orders into the works so as not to disturb civilian production too much (see BUSINESS). Businessmen had asked to be told what to do and had gotten no satisfactory answers...
...some of the smaller details in the thousands of drawings that go to make up a sequence. He taught himself drawing so well that in 1937 Reynolds News gave him a job as a cartoonist. His work caught the eye of the Beaver, who took him over in 1943. Overnight, Giles won a huge following in wartime Britain, notably American soldiers, who liked his good-humored pot shots at their habits. At a time when Americans were monopolizing London taxis, Giles cartooned an American plane which had just crashed into a German house. Its crew, standing a few feet away...