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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
Reynolds will pay rent to RFC on a sliding scale, from $535,000 a year to $1,070,000, for the $29,000,000 Jones Mill aluminum-making plant, and a rent of $273,000 and up a year (depending on output) for Hurricane Creek, the nation's biggest producer of alumina (the oxide from which aluminum is made...
Back to the Barracks. Whether or not this controversy simmered down, home building on any scale would not really get under way for months: the effects of the lumber strike, shortages of labor and other materials were still very real. Last week, as winter deepened, the Senate voted unanimously to turn 75,000 units of war housing over to veterans and their families, remodel Government dormitories to house 11,000 more, find room for 14,000 in Army barracks. The University of Washington planned to put up student veterans in portable houses shipped from the Hanford atomic bomb project...
Forward to Originals. Now in the reprint business "to stay," Ben Zevin plans a full-scale invasion of the "original" field next year (sample: a life of Bing Crosby, by his brother Ted; F.D.R. Speaks, edited by Ben Zevin). Most ambitious project, scheduled for 1947: a 25-lb. folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, No. 1 U.S. book designer, to sell for about...
...brief news item has just reached us via Army News Service: "The United States has made the first large-scale sale of surplus war goods in the Pacific-65,000 tons of material sold for about $20,000,000 to The Netherlands East Indies Government...