Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SNAP III to the discovery of gasoline as a source of power. Scientists were more restrained. SNAP III is an impressive achievement, they point out, but it is an application of an old principle. It merely converts the energy coming from polonium to its lowest form, heat-the standard process in any atomic power plant-and the production of electricity from heat (by means of thermocouples) is a familiar process. The conversion of nuclear radiation directly into electricity -an exciting possibility that is being vigorously explored in many laboratories -is yet to come...
...mind and in the Presidents's conscience--is two fold: for the people and for action. Perhaps a diligent student could achieve what Schlesinger has achieved in compiling--in a topical organization--the wealth of material about the tangible activities of the New Deal. But the decision-taking process at the top would still remain a mystery, the paradox of a Groton-Harvard-Hyde Park aristocrat becoming a hero of the proletariat. The author does a masterful job of detective-work on that mystery and produces a convincing explanation: 'He always cast his vote for life, for action, for forward...
...scissored-down manpower allowances, the 900,000-man Army last summer decided to tighten requirements and improve the G.I.s. Enlistment and draft laws were toughened; minimum requirement in the Army General Qualification Test was boosted from a ten-point score out of 100 to 31. The tightening-up process extended to troops in service; e.g., 71,000 "eightballs" fingered by their C.O.s were honorably discharged last year, and technicians were ordered to take periodic tests to win promotion or prove competency...
...factors--the desire to expand the College and financial pressures--may, in fact, limit deconversion to a few scattered suites. As the Programs puts it in another booklet, "The College has been growing steadily for generations. It would be a radical and untimely departure were this process now to come to a complete halt, particularly in view of the coming pressures from an increased population of college...
...closely guarded technical area of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory is a building on the mysteriously named DP Site. In one of its rooms Technician Cecil W. Kelley, 38, was working alone last week, adding a solvent to a 225-gal. tank. It was a routine part of a process to recover plutonium from waste materials. During his ten years at Los Alamos he had done the same chore about 75 times. This time was different. When he turned on the stirring apparatus, a bright blue flash bloomed out of the tank...