Word: rand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Kansas City, Kohler strike leaders are carrying their crusade to other meetings of the 18 million U.S. unionists. This week they move to labor conventions in Wisconsin, Ohio and Nevada. Said U.A.W. International Representative Donald Rand: "There won't be a trade meeting any place that does not get the Kohler story...
GUIDANCE SYSTEMS: Contractors are General Motors' AC Spark Plug Division, American Bosch Arma Corp., General Electric Co., Burroughs Corp., Remington Rand Univac Division and Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Rand's two-man team, Russian Expert Melville J. Ruggles and Arnold Kramish, nuclear intelligence specialist, got most of their information from surprisingly nonsecret sources: the files of Russian scientific periodicals lying almost undisturbed in the Library of Congress...
Russian papers published in 1939 and 1940, say the Rand team, prove that Soviet nuclear physics was as advanced at the time as in any other country. Its apparatus was plentiful and excellent. The first cyclotron on the European continent was in operation at the Leningrad Radium Institute before 1940. Two other cyclotrons were in the works, one of which (if the war had not intervened) would have been three times more powerful than the 60-inch cyclotron at Berkeley, then the world's biggest...
...from starting ... at scratch in 1945," says the Rand report, "the Russians should not have been, by that time, too far behind the knowledge and skill that had been achieved in the United States . . . Instead of being surprised that the Russians got the atomic bomb as early as they did, we should perhaps have been surprised that it took them so long...