Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year's weather was as bad as any since the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. No rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...
Acts of Man. Bad news was tempered with good. Alemán pointed to the Papaloapan River project that would set up a sort of Mexican TVA (TIME, March 31), a related plan to expand facilities for farm credit, and another to return to silver coinage, a move that would help the mining industry. His best piece of news had been written into the address at the last minute: after a nine-year controversy, Mexico had finally settled the oil expropriation row with Britain. For Royal Dutch Shell's subsidiary, the El Águila Petroleum Co., Mexico would...
...Manhattan District and its successor, the Atomic Energy Commission, which have kept a close watch on employees, are morally certain that there have been only two deaths from radioactivity in the history of the project: those of Physicists Louis A. Slotin and Harry K. Daghlian, who died from accidental exposure to a powerful beam of neutrons and gamma rays last year (TIME, June...
...Robert J. Moon is a Chicago physicist who worked on the famed Manhattan Project. Thus, he knows a lot of "classi fied" (secret) facts about how Jo make atomic bombs. Last week he came to the rueful conclusion that his knowledge was threatening to be a bar to professional advancement...
Before and after his service on the Man hattan Project, 36-year-old Physicist Moon worked on atomic research at the University of Chicago. Last year McMasters University at Hamilton, Ont. offered him a job as head of its physics department...