Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steelman, sometimes dubbed "Assistant President," is the man who keeps things from piling up when the boss is away. Recently, moon-faced John Steelman found himself at the bottom of a pile...
...airplanes fly faster & faster, bailing out gets harder & harder. The airstream, pouring past the plane at 500 m.p.h., smacks the would-be "caterpillar" with the force of a padded pile driver. If he survives this blow, he runs the risk of being slammed against the tail surfaces...
Last week Dr. Edward U. Condon, Chief of the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, told the Paris conference that the job had been done-by transmutation. Pure gold (atomic weight 197), placed in an atomic pile and exposed to a storm of neutrons, is transmuted into a single mercury isotope with atomic weight 198. This one-isotope mercury gives off green light waves of extraordinary uniformity, as measuring sticks. They are much better than cadmium light; they are vastly better than the meter bar. Scientists using mercury light should be able to measure with an accuracy of one part...
Another atomic hint came from Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis L. Strauss, speaking at the University of New Hampshire. He mentioned "packaged" nuclear power. It might be possible, he said, to place material in a uranium pile and make it highly radioactive by bombarding it with neutrons. Then it could be taken out and used as a kind of atomic storage battery to run a power plant...
...most dramatic price cut of the year. For months clothiers had watched men's suits pile up on the shelves and racks in their stores. Last week Crawford Clothes, Inc.'s Joseph Levy, one of the biggest sellers of men's clothes, slashed prices 20% across the board...