Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...
Brookhaven's pile is designed primarily for research; it will produce little or no explosive plutonium. From its graphite and uranium interior will come a more plentiful supply of the radioactive isotopes which are already transforming U.S. science. Through its thick shield will shoot the neutrons which are powerful research tools. An elaborate "hot laboratory" will study the dangerous substances and radiations coming from the pile...
...Blenheim Palace the Tories last week held their biggest rally since the 1945 Labor victory. The palace, a huge pile of yellowed brown and grey stone given by a grateful Parliament to the first Duke of Marlborough, loomed impressively amid the green of flawlessly kept lawns, woods, pastures and ponds. The afternoon was perfect, with just a touch of cloud, wind and rain to make it true to England. Into the green expanse spilled some 60,000 Britons (at 50? for the general public, 30? for Conservative Party members). For their entertainment there were bowling greens, tea tents, puppet shows...
...little clump. All the amoebae for microns* around stop their feeding and dividing. Like city people running to the scene of an accident, they swarm toward the growing center (see cut). Some join end to end and stream in gay little chains. By thousands and tens of thousands they pile up in a heap...
...year ago last week the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn. began selling radioactive isotopes made in its uranium pile. Already, these atomic by-products have had important influences on U.S. science, and have made possible many hitherto impossible research jobs...