Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Side Chicago building, three miles from the stadium where the world's first atomic pile went into action 14 years ago, a shrilling alarm bell signaled the birth last week of U.S. industry's Atomic Age. As a white-smocked scientist twisted the knobs on a control panel outside a monolithic concrete cubicle, a lighted dial flashed: REACTOR ON. Thus the world's first nuclear reactor devoted exclusively to industrial research went into operation at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Armour Research Foundation...
...Most dearly beloved to me in all the world: This is probably the last letter you will receive from me on this earth. Although my thoughts have pursued an orbit around you day and night ever since our separation ... I fear that with everything I shall only pile a new burden upon your poor sorely tried heart...
...building costs-and home prices -soar higher, prospective buyers are also taking a hard look at the equipment built into new houses. In Texas builders of $100.000 houses can still pile on the gadgets by the carload: two dishwashers, built-in music systems, even air-conditioned doghouses. But in the lower price brackets, more and more families would rather pay for space, buy the gadgets later. Built-in TV is no longer in such great demand; neither are built-in dishwashers, waste disposals or other extras...
...study room assigned to him at the National War College, an Air Force colonel stared glumly one day last August at the pile of books he had drawn out of the college library only a few hours after reporting for duty. The books were on history, sociology and economics-quite a shock for an officer who, a few days before, had been leading jet bombers across the Atlantic at 40,000 ft. as commander of a SAC B-47 squadron. "Has the Pentagon gone off its rocker?'' the colonel asked a classmate. "What the hell are we supposed...
When the five-nation U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament opened its latest series of talks in London on March 19, about all it had to show for two years of work was a slag pile of rejected plans. Last week as the subcommittee wound up its second week in London it was, thanks to the U.S., closer to a realistic consideration of disarmament problems than ever before...