Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waves tearing across her deck, the yacht Amphitrite hung on a sand bar off the Carolina coast. Her captain and owner, 40-year-old Samuel Luttrell II, ordered all hands into their 16-ft. lifeboat. With his wife Kathleen, their twelve-year-old son Samuel III and six crew members, he put out into the darkening sea. Just before they cast off, someone grabbed two metal ice trays from the yacht and carried them into the boat...
Long before sunset, the sky went black from a gathering northeaster. When the Amphitrite sprang a leak, Luttrell pointed her back to shore. But the rising gale was too much for the two large engines. Crippled and off her course, the Amphitrite hit a sand bar near the mouth of the Cape Fear River...
...these days of cold war," says Thirring, it is likely that "countries possessing atomic piles will store their dangerous by-products with the intention of using them to make enemy cities or industrial centers uninhabitable." He suggests that this will be done by combining the active material with fine sand and sifting it sparingly from airplanes over the target areas...
...city may be considered uninhabitable, Thirring says, if it is so radioactive that people who stay in it for four weeks will die of radiation sickness. This level of saturation does not require much of the activated sand. "Further calculations," says Thirring, "give the following result: if in a few decades only 10% of the power consumed in the U.S. is generated by atomic piles, the stock of radioactive material which may be used for contamination of an enemy country will suffice for making an area of about 3,000 square miles uninhabitable." This is more than the area...
LIFE'S Picture History of Western Man. A vividly illustrated panorama of a thou sand years of Western civilization (TIME...