Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few months, daily uranium output was stepped up from eight ounces to more than 500 lbs., and the cost dropped from $1,000 a lb. to $22. By 1943, bigger & better production methods were ready to take over, and Drs. Rentschler & Harden were able to quit their little makeshift. But in the emergency, they had supplied more than the asked-for three tons of pure uranium, for the first atomic pile...
This year's pyrotechnics topped them all. At Tahoka, disagreement over football policy ended in a tizzy when the school superintendent got his head bashed, the principal quit, the coach resigned, excited parents staged a mass meeting, 19 members of the football squad turned in their books and left school. At Pampa, one of the state's oldest and best referees made a game-end dash for it, flanked by protecting police, beat it out of town with a hooting mob panting at his heels...
...week's end the whole investigation seemed about to collapse in a roar of political ill temper. Chairman Alben W. Barkley, also out of patience with the Republican members, announced that he might quit too. So did Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter. George, who has seldom opened his mouth during the hearings...
Three weeks after Japan quit fighting, Under Secretary of the Navy Artemus L. ("Di") Gates sent his resignation to Harry Truman. The President asked him to help out a little longer. Big, quiet, forceful Di Gates had left the presidency of Manhattan's New York Trust Co. as soon as the nation seemed to be getting into trouble, had served the Navy for four years and three months, first as Assistant Secretary for Air, then as the No. 2 man in the secretariat. Last week Di Gates finally began clearing up his desk-the President had agreed...
Between the World Wars France kept the Levant States under troubled control, but seven months ago they revolted. Last week the Quai d'Orsay bowed to the inevitable. France and Britain simultaneously announced an agreement to quit Syria and the Lebanon together, on dates to be discussed this week. Thereafter, if forces are needed to establish security in Syria and the Lebanon, UNO will supply them...