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...type might have curious effects in the event of a war involving, say, Brazil and the Argentine. If the U.S. were to embargo the shipments of lethal weapons to these countries in the event of war, any interested European nation-say. Germany -could step in and subsidize the sort of victory that seemed best calculated to damage the Monroe Doctrine. The U. S. would thus find its neutrality policy contravening an even older policy and threatening the safety of the Panama Canal, which is vital to the two-ocean effectiveness of the U. S. fleet. For this reason the present...
...cyclotron is a type of atom-smasher which speeds atomic projectiles up to enormous energies by whirling them in magnetic fields. When the University of California's smart, jovial Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented it about a decade ago, it was used for the purest sort of research in experimental physics. Three years ago the cyclotron switched from pure science to practical science when it was discovered that beams of neutrons produced by the cyclotron destroyed cancer cells in mice. A regular program of medical cyclotron work was set afoot, in charge of the inventor's brother...
...organization with having done much to eliminate unfair advertising practices. Mr. Falk retorts: "We regret that his discussion of [our work] is much too brief. compared with the opposing text, and that it does not change much the previously built-up picture of advertising as a pretty rotten sort of institution...
...same temperament, as can be seen in his championing scientific underdog Robert Hooke. Moreover, his step is firm, his voice vigorous, and his tall figure is neither gaunt nor flabby. He retired from the Princeton faculty and became a professor emeritus six years ago, but that is a sort of pious hoax. He is as active as ever...
...other, begun early last year, presents famed Publicist George Ephraim Sokolsky, a sort of star-spangled spieler :or capitalism, in talks and interviews on ligh taxes, scared private capital, benevolent monopoly, malevolentisms...