Word: started
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When natural uranium is put in a chain-reacting pile, its U-235 atoms start splitting and yielding energy, "fission products" and free neutrons. Some of the neutrons are needed to split more U-235 atoms and keep the reaction going. Others are absorbed by impurities or escape from the pile. The rest enter the atoms of U-238, ultimately turn them into plutonium...
When the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co. decided to build the Caribe, it sent out letters to seven U.S. hotel owners asking them if they were interested in coming to Puerto Rico. Only Connie Hilton had the graciousness to start off his reply in Spanish: "Mi estimado amigo." His esteemed friends in Puerto Rico were so overwhelmed by this friendly tone-and by the Hilton name-that they decided to build the $6,500,000 hotel for Connie Hilton. The deal is a friendly...
Conrad Hilton thinks such a future is fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where...
...well-drilled Navy basketball team fought off a second half varsity rally Saturday night to win, 70 to 68, at the Garden. After a slow start-it trailed 36 to 29 at the half-Norm Shepard's squad pulled up to the Midshipmen, but them lost three chances to sew up the game...
...again high scorer for the varsity with 25 points, but he was handcuffed by a tight Navy defense in the first half. The Middies concentrated on close man-to-man guarding and their passing was fast and accurate they scored effectively from the outside. Two minutes from the start of the game they had picked up a seven point lead...