Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Burial Vault, a two-inch wall of concrete completely inner-lined with lead, is in the process of manufacture, and within a few weeks will be in stock, ready for interment when the occasion arises...
...process, our correspondents initiated or encountered many a revealing, amusing incident...
...were jeeps and two-wheeled, gasoline-powered scooters. Hundred-mile-an-hour hot rods were still in style in California and some other states, although the law and construction costs were closing in on them. In Atlanta, teen-agers who possessed juiced-up cars had developed a process known as "scratching." They started the car in reverse, whipped backwards in a tight semicircle, then slammed the gears into low and roared off with a squeal of tires and a shower of dust...
...detail of the deal is that Argentina, which uses only 3,000 tons of tin a year, has no smelter to process the ore. Presumably Argentina will have it smelted in England. But what would she do with the surplus over her own needs? It might be smart business to sell it to the U.S.-at a fancy profit...
...there will be a period when few bombs are available. Each nation will frantically start producing more. At the same time, each nation will scatter its population, bury its factories underground, conceal its command centers, stockpile materials and equipment against the day when no more can be produced. The process will not protect the people, but it may allow the nation to preserve some of its strength while under atomic attack, and scrape together enough bombs to wipe out its enemy...