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Finally, Professor Williams believes that much of the success or failure of the British action will depend on the United States. The fundamental cause of Britain's and Europe's dollar deficits "lies in our short-run economic instability and our long run tendency to outstrip others in production." The...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military...
What did the Russians need to do? The Smyth Report told them (as their own scientists could have told them anyway) that there are two roads to the release of explosive atomic energy. One is separating explosive uranium 235 from natural uranium. The other is transmuting uranium into explosive plutonium...
Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II...
Back in the U.S., Putnam joined the Communist Party, did a literary column for the Daily Worker, was an associate editor of the New Masses, kept on translating (Novelists Ignazio Silone, Georges Duhamel) and writing his own books (Paris Was Our Mistress, Marvelous Journey). He spent eight years with the...