Word: scale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clinical supply of radioactive iodine and radioactive phosphorous, by-products of the uranium piles which produce plutonium for use in atomic bombs. This method of production is relatively cheap, since the only alternative means is cyclotron bombardment which produces such small quantities as to be impractical for the desired scale of operation...
...least ten times as much as has been produced in any of the 15-odd smaller pilot plants so far built by Government and industry. But it was still far short of the 10,000-gallon daily production of a full-sized commercial plant on the scale of those that powered Germany's Luftwaffe during World...
Died. Sir John Alexander Hammerton, 78, British journalist, author (In the Track of R. L. Stevenson, 1909; With Northcliffe in Fleet Street, 1932) and editor of many a large-scale reference work (Punch Library of Humour, Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia, Harmsworth History of the World), who offered a ?1,000,000 reward in 1940 to any American who would bring Hitler "alive or still breathing" to his office within 30 days; in London...
...government. The experts talked about new books like William Vogt's "Road to Survival" and Fair-field Osborn's "Our Plundered Planet," which describe the squeeze population growth is putting on our food supply. They discussed synthesizing food from chemicals, flood control, and atomic power sources, and large-scale projects such as the proposed Columbia Valley Authority. They worked on crosion. But most of all they worried about what one speaker called the "the greatest obstacle . . . public apathy...
...during the Revolution, which will soon be on display across from the 1936 model in the entrance to Widener Library, the region around Harvard Square had many similar ponds and creeks. Such fine attention to physiographic and architectural details in this reproduction has given the University another masterpiece of scale modeling from the studio of Theodore B. Pitman...