Word: poundings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the dawn of atomic power, scientists have dreamed of converting nuclear energy directly into electricity. The potential is clear from a simple statistic: a single pound of uranium 235 has the same fuel energy as 1,500 Ibs. of coal. But present atomic power plants must go through costly intermediate steps: nuclear fission produces heat, the heat is used to generate steam, the steam drives a turbine, the turbine generates the electricity...
Thirty-eight persons, mostly children, were killed and three injured yesterday in the explosion of a 500-pound World War II bomb at a fishing village on Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands...
...genetics race between supermarkets and specialty stores to provide the best eating bird. The meat-type chicken is never referred to by the industry simply as a chicken. It is too much of an all-purpose bird. With its plump breast and slim shanks, at less than a pound, it can be sold as a squab. At a pound it is widely sold as a Rock Cornish game hen (the game hen is an amiable conceit, but it does have Plymouth Rock and Cornish strains among its ancestors). At 2 Ibs. it is a broiler...
...powerful government radio telescope lost contact with the 13-pound cone at 10:24 a.m. EST. The General Electric Co. tracking station at Schenectady, N.Y., reported flickering signals until shortly after...
...pass came at 5:24 p.m. EST. Scientists calculated the 13-pound cone came within 37,000 mles of the moon. At the time, government scientists said, the gold-plated vehicle was 236,000 miles from earth...