Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...script he wrote for Mimic Eddie Garr gave him a start in radio. Then he began satirizing Tin Pan Alley songs at private parties and convulsed Connoisseurs Groucho Marx and Danny Kaye with such numbers as The Girl With the Three Blue Eyes and I Looked Under a Rock and Found...
...look for uranium, says the booklet, is with a Geiger counter, now manufactured by dozens of companies and retailing for as little as $54.50. Geiger counters click all the time because of "background radioactivity" caused by cosmic rays and the tiny amounts of radioactive materials present in most rocks. The prospector should first record the "background count"; any increase is interesting. "If the radioactivity of any particular rock is four times the background count," says the handbook, "a sample should be taken...
...radioactive rock does not contain uranium. It may contain thorium (also radioactive), in which the AEC has only a faint interest. The booklet describes a rather complicated process by which the prospector can test his find with ultraviolet light...
Selective Service. In Little Rock, Ark., when Civil Service Commission officials explained to a job applicant that positions were limited to those with "veterans' preference," the woman admitted that she was not a veteran or married to one, "but I sure prefer them...
...jumped from 150 reservists a weekend to 600, with at least 150 families a week tagging along. The men got a chance to do a little brushing up on their weapons and marksmanship. Their wives and youngsters had a wonderful time at the swimming pool and among the rock-bottom prices of the post exchange. And, said one reservist's wife at Fort MacArthur: "It's a pleasure to be here and know that my husband is really out with a tank and not a blonde...