Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like every other commodity in Europe, money is bought & sold on the black market. Through a series of "black" transactions, a man with flexible scruples can pile up a handsome profit. Required for the trick are 1) the false bottoms of inflation and 2) a well-organized international set of stooges. Last week, TIME's London bureau found a traveler who had just returned from a cheap weekend tour of the continent...
...vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
...during the war, Technical Sergeant Levine did clerical work in one of the loneliest spots in the world, an Army base on Ascension Island in mid-Atlantic. On the side he painted a Crucifixion for the Catholic chapel. Says he: "The boys needed something to look at on that pile of slag...
Said a detective, eyeing a "gold" pile worth 30 millions: "Zut! Next to him, Uncle Philibert was a piker...
Cyclotrons were not all. Sweden was obviously planning to build a uranium-plutonium pile, for Parliament had been asked to appropriate $1 million for high-purity graphite, heavy water and other pile materials. No uranium had been mined as yet, but fairly large deposits had been found in central Sweden. They were low grade, containing less than half a pound of uranium per ton of ore. Swedish uranium would be expensive, but cost might be no barrier if richer deposits in luckier countries were kept away from the open market...