Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best hunting ground for neutrinos is near nuclear reactors, from which, by the Fermi-Pauli theory, they stream in vast numbers. So Reines and Cowan took their apparatus to the AEC's Savannah River plant. They set it up in an underground room where it was sheltered from distracting cosmic rays but exposed to a flood of neutrinos from one of the great plutonium-producing reactors...
...headquarters in a romantic, rustic, 38-room retreat which he and his partners built overlooking Hvitträsk (White Lake), 18 miles outside Helsinki. After he married a sister of one of his partners, Sculptress Loja Gesellius, they turned it into a center of crafts and architecture. Among the stream of visitors and guests: Russian Novelist Maxim Gorky, Critic Julius Meier-Graefe, Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil von Mannerheim, Composer Jean Sibelius...
...late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole crossing because of overcast, and Finisterre navigated the last 75 miles by Bermuda radio...
Said Mitchell; "We were in constant squalls in the Gulf Stream. About 11 on the third night the glass dropped, and the weather took on all the characteristics of a tropical lull. We were still 165° on the compass when I looked up and saw a squall going all the way across the sky. It looked like a mushroom atom cloud, low with a black stem. The scene was eerie, with the moon not shining but giving just enough light to see. The sea was pretty big, and I said, 'This looks like the worst squall...
...their long-discussed consolidation. Merger talks faltered this year when control of North Western fell to Chicago Lawyer Ben Heineman (TIME, Feb. 20). Heineman wants to strengthen his road before bar gaining with its leading competitor. Since becoming North Western's boss, Heineman has cut costs and deadwood, stream lined maintenance, figures to have North Western steamed up enough to start negotiations in three years. But Lannan also plans to do a lot with the Milwaukee by that time...