Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughty, able Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson asked the provincial legislature for authority to raise a loan of $10,500,000, then to embark on an ambitious project to buttress Manitoba's basic agricultural economy with new and expanded industries. If he got the loan, he proposed to add $5,500,000 more which the Government had laid aside out of tidy wartime surpluses...
Until last week, the world had heard no hint of nonexplosive plutonium. But behind the Manhattan Project's secrecy curtain, it might have been created as early as 1943. Some physicists mentioned plutonium 240, which they thought might be made from the explosive plutonium (Pu-239), or from natural uranium. If it proved inert, like U-238, it could be mixed with Pu-239 to make it non-detonating. There is reason to think that both varieties of plutonium may be produced simultaneously, and ready-mixed...
...magazine world buzzed with rumors about various "Projects X," all being guarded as top-secret until their publishers were good & ready to unveil them. But last week Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. let one project out of the bag even before it got to the rumor stage...
Answering Professor Weisskopf's complaint that "all the wealth of observation, the results of years of study at Los Alamos and elsewhere, is locked away in the files of the Manhattan Project," and is blocking by its inaccessibility all the peaceful possibilities of atomic energy, Professor Wild reminded the large audience that "We have inherited a mutual distrust for Russia," on which the atomic secrecy is based...
...Pont's biggest war job was designing, building and operating the $350,000,000 Hanford atom bomb project. For this, its fee was exactly...