Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic piles for peacetime uses can be turned into weapons "in a matter of weeks," Sumner T. Pike, acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee, told the Nieman Fellows Saturday night...
...Pike also stated that '40 men will be able to do an adequate inspection job of Russia's atomic installations" if international control is arranged. Atomic installations are large and easily spotted from the air, Pike said...
Discussing commercial peacetime uses of atomic energy, Pike pointed out the major problem is "killing radioactivity.' Present protection materials are so bulky and heavy, he added, that fissionable material can be used only in large ships or factories...
...Spencer County Magnet, Editor Burlyn Pike straightened Columnist Pearson out. The jail, built 23 years ago, was made not of logs, but concrete; it had four cells, not two; and no runaway boy had been detained there since 1943. The embarrassed Courier-Journal asked one of its Washington correspondents, hardworking John Day, to "nail Pearson...
This week in Washington the National Bureau of Standards announced that mica had been successfully synthesized by three of its scientists, Dr. Herbert Insley, Alvin Van Valkenburg and Robert Pike. The new product is equal to natural mica as an insulator, far superior in its ability to withstand high temperatures...