Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five minutes he had the correct answer. This week the smart boy, now 34-year-old Professor Kenneth S. Pitzer of the University of California, will step into what is now the most important scientific job in the world, replacing Harvard's Dr. James Fisk as director of research of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...wealthy California citrus grower and real estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
...Government will spend nearly $700 million on atomic energy this year, and this vast project will be largely supervised by a handful of U.S. corporations. Yet major corporations, which will spend hundreds of millions on research this year, will not put one red cent of it into atomic energy research (see SCIENCE). Many companies have even refused to take any part in the Government project...
...batshaped little (20 ft. long) craft with two jet engines and broad, backswept wings (see cut). No entry in the supersonic sweepstakes, the X-4 was designed in the belief that subsonic speeds will still be the practical concern of aviation for many years. It will be used for research at speeds of about 650 m.p.h...