Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators of a tremendous share of the future. Of these, Conant, because of the newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
Atomic Doodling. So far, only a few scientists connected with the Manhattan Project have been allowed to experiment freely with the pile's products. But outsiders, letting their imaginations soar, have dreamed up many uses: one possibility, a radioactive lamp that might glow for months or years...
Seaborg Tells. Until recently, atomic doodlers had little real information. But last week, Glenn T. Seaborg, codiscoverer of plutonium, and leading chemist of the Manhattan Project, released a gob of it. Said Seaborg: "It is not at all out of the question that the greatest gains to humanity from the atomic energy development will result from the widespread use of tracers...
...this and more could be forecast, but so far, the Manhattan Project is grimly guarding its piles, and burying their products underground...
Snow will fall in Florida this summer. But the snow will be indoors-in the Army Air Forces' "Climatic Hangar." This $6,000,000 project, abuilding at Eglin Field Proving Ground since October 1944, and scheduled for completion in July, is far & away the most ambitious attempt yet made to synthesize the vagaries of nature. Its purpose: to test planes, equipment and men under every climatic condition...