Word: savannahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million hydrogen bomb plant that will soon be built in South Carolina, the people of that region can thank-or blame-the Savannah River. The Atomic Energy Commission admitted last week that it had studied rivers across the U.S. before finally picking the Savannah as the most suitable...
Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...
Among the 100 papers read at Chicago last week giving details of experiments in ACTH during the past year, there were other evidences of the drug's usefulness in short-term applications. In Savannah ACTH had saved one woman from the bite of a black widow spider and another from the bite of a copperhead snake. Early administration of ACTH in some cases of rheumatic fever had seemed to avert permanent damage to the heart. By & large, however, the Chicago papers proved only that doctors still have much to learn about the new drug. Where long-term administration...
...Savannah River Valley, there was not a pine bark fish stew or a fat porker barbecue. Work had come to a standstill and people gathered in small hushed groups to discuss the stunning news: their homes, farms and small towns would be wiped out to make way for the Government's $260 million hydrogen-bomb project...
...Commissioned, respectively, in 1936 and 1937, the Brooklyn and Savannah are up-to-date war vessels, each carrying eight 5-inch and 15 6-inch guns...