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...Point of No Return, by J. P. Marquand, a successful New York banker was forced by a business complication to return to his New England home town for the first time in 19 years. So home he went, dipping back into his shingles and salt-spray origins, reassessing his whole adult life and redreaming his youthful dreams before fully waking up to the present...
...harvest is only half the job. Year round company foresters roam the woods to protect the crops against disease and fire, spray insecticides to kill off such enemies as the pine beetle and the spruce budworm, which can destroy masses of trees. If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting. In six years Crown Zellerbach seeded nearly 30,000 acres of barren land, gave away more than 1,000,000 seedlings to 4-H clubs and others for planting...
...rockets (total thrust 40,000 lbs.) fired all together, and the sled leaped down the rails, leaving behind ; huge cloud of smoke and overtaking a jetplane flying overhead. When the rocket: burned out. the sled was moving at 63 m.p.h. Then the water brake took hold throwing fountains of spray, and brough it to a rapid stop...
...Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand standing on a ladder, and is used for commercials and other short sequences...
Soothing statements during that period of atomic innocence were reasonably accurate. Careful study showed that except in special cases (e.g., an A-bomb exploding in a harbor and drenching a city with "hot" spray) there was little to fear from radioactivity. The bomb's initial burst of gamma rays affected few people. If the bomb exploded high in the air (the approved position), its radioactive fission products were carried aloft and dissipated in the upper atmosphere. When they sifted down thousands of miles away, they could be detected by sensitive instruments, but their activity was far too weak...