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The Japanese also turned Formosa's fragrant Oolong tea into a big-money crop, but here their customary sense of order and cleanliness deserted them. Of the girls employed in the tea-sorting godowns a Yankee traveler in 1922 complained: "Some of these tea-sorters are as much addicted...
¶ Requested $600 million (on top of $500 million already listed in 1951 budget requests) to build understocked government piles of strategic material (see below).
A Ton for Manhattan. The U.S. chain-reacting piles at Hanford, Wash., Ridenour says, are now operating at a rate of at least 3,000,000 kilowatts. This means that the radioactive materials they produce in a month could contaminate (at the rate of two curies per square meter) about...
The Punjab was split when India was partitioned in 1947 and the ancient Punjab Capital, Lahore, went to Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre...
On the waterfront, two coal barges burned and smoked. The pier had disappeared and so had the lighters and the twelve railroad cars. The Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards...