Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an unruffled "rather warm," the London Daily Express weather report rose to a blunt "hot," then staunchly maintained: "fine." For the three-day August bank holiday, a million Londoners migrated to the country and the seaside (where this week they were surprised by brief gales and showers). Throughout the heat spell, authorities had kept an eye on a below-normal water supply; the use of hoses and sprinklers was banned five days a week. In the London zoo, a lion decided that the best way to keep cool was to relax...
Three years ago the Philippines formally received their independence from the U.S. By precept and practical help, the U.S. gave the new nation a great chance to build a working democracy in a chaotic Asia threatened by Communism. From Manila last week, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles cabled the following report on how the Philippines were doing...
...often-attacked Atomic Energy Commission submitted to Congress this week its sixth semiannual report, dealing mainly with its peaceful, nonsecret activities. The list of these is impressive, for atomic energy, as befits a revolution in human affairs, touches nearly every branch of science...
...great national laboratories (Brookhaven on Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
...board's hearings began in Manhattan last week, Big Steel's Chairman Irving S. Olds found himself in something of a psychological box. The hearings opened just as U.S. Steel issued its mid-year earnings report to stockholders. Since profits were 76% above 1948's first half, Olds had a hard time explaining that past profits were no remedy for the steel industry's present situation, with orders having fallen off so much that production had been cut back 30% in a matter of ten weeks...