Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office of Censorship shut up shop after three years, seven months, 27 days. Only the how-to-make-it facts about the atomic bomb remained on the secret list, and the Army was left to do its own censoring on that. Last big project of the Office of Censorship: a report on how its job should be done in the next...
...Navy is a little better: 1) some 25 experts at a laboratory at Mare Island are working on strong, lightweight legs in the one & only such Government-financed research project; 2) the dental laboratory at Philadelphia's Naval Hospital is working on natural-looking false hands; 3) Lieut. Commander Lamar W. Harris, dentist at the Navy's Bethesda, Md. medical center, announced last fortnight that he had developed a one-pound, natural-looking hand that works well...
Partnership Formed. The U.S. entered the atom race in the fall of 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt appointed an informal "Advisory Committee on Uranium." It was a small project until the Nazi panzers roared over France. Then the world was struck by a terrible urgency. On Oct. 11, 1941, nearly two months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to Winston Churchill, offering British nuclear physicists a plan to work in the U.S. Churchill accepted. The U.S. and Britain were partners...
...Manhattan Engineer District" was the purposely deceptive name given the project. Its centers were full of G-men. Its couriers were Army officers, brief cases chained to their wrists. It rated highest priorities for men and materials. From dozens of universities and industrial plants physicists, chemists and mathematicians vanished into thin air; the Manhattan District had snatched them...
...years the Vanadium Corp. of America jogged along in its own quiet way, all but unknown to the public. Last week it was blasted into the limelight. Vanadium is one of the chief suppliers to the atomic bomb project...