Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon in 1942, a scientist working in the University of Chicago's tightly guarded athletic field house dryly announced: "The curve is exponential." The speaker was Dr. Enrico Fermi; his four quiet words meant that a chain reaction had just been successfully brought about in the experimental uranium pile. Last week a TIME correspondent witnessed the unveiling of a plaque to mark the site...
Song-&-Glance Man Maurice Chevalier, who made a pile in Hollywood in 1935, returned to the scene of his triumph and was promptly buttonholed by the state tax collector. Chevalier, who declared he had forgotten all about it, sighed, handed over the delinquency...
John D. Rockefeller made his pile in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, but William A. Clarke, III, '51, has started his race in the traditional American derby for greenbacks with a prospering business of merchandising milk and doughnuts to esurient Yardlings...
Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...