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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrinos." When the two meet, they annihilate one another. Dr. Gamow suggests, with bated breath, that neutrino-annihilation may result in the emission of "gravitational waves." In plain language, the mysterious neutrino and the waves it gives off in dying may keep everything and everybody from flying off into space...
...readers of the New Hampshire Morning Union (once owned by the late Frank Knox), 42-year-old Publisher William Loeb explained in a front-page editorial why he was running a two-column story on Wallace's visit. Wrote Loeb: "We are giving Henry Wallace . . . more space in our paper than [his visit] deserves . . . Because we dislike him so much, we want to be sure we are doing the right thing...
...epitaph. Now past 70, he had crossed the country in a covered wagon, been cowboy, cook, farmer, fruitgrower, preacher and proprietor of a farmers' market. Fallwell ambled down to the La Grande (Ore.) Evening Observer (circ. 3,700) and asked how much it would cost to buy enough space to tell his whole story. He finally settled for a two-column want-ad a week, at $15 for each...
...Adding more office space to the Executive Wing...
Tunnel from the Sun. There may be many different primary rays. Some, thinks Dr. S. E. Forbush of the Carnegie Institution, may come from the sun. There are plenty of high-speed particles in the sun, but ordinarily they cannot escape into space because of the sun's powerful magnetic field. But sunspots, which are whirling solar hurricanes, have magnetic fields of their own. Sometimes these cancel the sun's general field, making a narrow, nonmagnetic tunnel through which the particles escape. Dr. Forbush claimed to have observed sudden increases of cosmic radiation when such a tunnel happened...