Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of his, or any newsman's life-but he couldn't write it. There he was, sitting in a Superfort, with arc-welder's glasses to protect his eyes from the glare, watching the atomic bomb bore down on Nagasaki. But able, sad-faced William L. Laurence's lips were sealed. He was the Army's guest...
...heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments which the Army's cautious scientists still refuse to explain...
...newsmen at Trinity last week could not leave their cars at the crater's rim without first donning canvas overshoes to protect themselves against burns from radioactive material which might lodge in their shoes. Scientists with radiometers like long-lensed cameras found several "hot spots" near the inner crater's edge, warned others to stay away. Reporters who enthusiastically pocketed souvenir bits of crater glass had second thoughts when someone recalled the effects of radiation on fertility. The radiometers proved that some of the souvenirs were actually still dangerous...
...World War I, Lieut. Arthur Travers Harris formed the first night-fighter squadron to protect London from Zeppelins. Thereafter, he became one of the major prophets of air power; the heavy bomber was his special love. Last week theR.A.F.'s Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris said goodbye to his job-and to air power as it had developed during his lifetime. Said Bomber Harris...
...industry also had a big investment to protect: the millions now tied up in tankers. As an alternative, the industry suggested that Big Inch be converted to a natural gas pipeline. Since Texas bitterly begrudges the gas that now flows from the state, there seemed little chance of that happening...