Word: protected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest baubles, the diamond, may help protect him against his newest peril. This week the U.S. Bureau of Standards announced that diamonds, size for size, are 1,000 times more sensitive to dangerous radiation than the famous Geiger counter...
...Irishman named William M. Harnett. As sickly as Peale, Harnett was also dirt-poor to start with, took to painting still lifes because he could not afford live models. He made his dead models-rabbits, books, fruit, paper money-so convincing that guards were once posted to protect his canvases from clutching gallerygoers...
Keeping its secrets close to its chest, the A.E.G. hardly mentioned the practical possibilities. The fast reactor must be surrounded, like its predecessors, by a thick shield to protect the neighborhood from destructive radiation. This limits its use. But the comparatively small size is an obvious advantage. The new pile, further developed and allowed to run faster and hotter, may be the furnace of tomorrow's atomic power plant...
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission was quietly gathering material on another form of price-fixing. Prominent in the commission's reports to Congress are the various "fair trade" laws passed by the states to protect small businessmen from undercutting by their larger competitors. New York last week provided a fertile field for the commission's study. Fixing of retail liquor prices, which had been permissible in the State of New York, became mandatory. After Sept. 1, customers would have to pay $6.10 for some brands of whiskey which the week before many stores had sold...
Like millions of working girls, tilt-nosed Betty Oliver was tired of waiting for heaven to protect her. At 34, she was bored with her job and with herself. In her drab little office in Dallas, one day in 1945, she began scrawling doodles in her shorthand notebook. They became the first crude dummies of a magazine for girls like herself. Last week her Business Girl, launched with $7.50 capital, was out of the red and she was ready to ask her stockholders to recapitalize at a round...