Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to Carey's letter was-or should have been-entirely predictable. Replied Illinois' Republican Representative Edward Derwinski to Carey: "You and too many other autocratic union bosses are guilty of the un-American philosophy of class hatred." New York's Republican Representative Steven Derounian asked Carey for 10,000 copies of the letter "to distribute them to the residents of my district so they can see how you operate...
...stay at home. But Kennedy need not have bothered: during the 13 hours before all the lights came back on, the crime rate plunged to almost nothing. Said Tough Cop Kennedy: "The main reason why the unlighted streets were not turned into a dark and steaming jungle was the reaction of the community ... In the dark all men were the same color. In the dark our fellow man was seen more clearly than in the normal light of a New York night...
Last week in Upsala, Sweden, Kolb reported his preliminary results to an international conference of physicists. The data indicated that his project has made a significant advance toward the achievement of the first controlled fusion reaction, an objective that could give the human race a source of energy that would last for millions of years: one small bucket of water holds enough heavy hydrogen to make fuel equivalent to 300 gallons of gasoline...
...fissioning U-233 produces more than enough neutrons to maintain the original chain reaction. If these extra neutrons are captured by thorium, the reactor will produce more U-233 fuel than it can use. The AEC thinks this breeding factor is the key to cheap nuclear power. If a breeding reactor such as the one being planned for Oak Ridge were to start operation in 1959, it could be expected to produce enough material to fuel a duplicate of itself...
Just after World War II, Navy brass urged Rockefeller to bail out a sputtering rocket pioneer, Reaction Motors. Against his financial aide's advice, Rockefeller put up $500,000. After a tough decade, Reaction grew strong enough to merge with Thiokol Chemical Corp. last year, and Rockefeller got Thiokol stock that is now worth $4,200,000. In 1950, Rockefeller put $202,000 into low-flying Marquardt Aircraft Co., a pioneer in ramjet propulsion; his interest zoomed to $5,200,000 after Marquardt started making ram-jets for the Bomarc missile. But the fastest rise...