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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitehaven, Tenn. (pop. 2,000), eight marriages of high-school students since September were too many for Principal Fred Elliott. He announced that hereafter students who got married would be dismissed from school. He also forbade the boys & girls to lunch or stroll together, or to hold hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Powerful Primo Camera, year-long heavyweight champ in the early '30s, was having trouble with his hands. In Knoxville, Tenn., he shook a sports promoter's hand, broke it-the promoter's-in two places. In Miami, Mrs. Rosalie B. Marano sued him for $25,000, charged that he had pawed her in an auto last February and she still hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

There will also be two chain-reacting piles: one of low power like the pile now operating at Oak Ridge, Tenn.; the other hundreds of times stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Workshop | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...annual research budget (including the atom) to $1,200,000,000. Last month Sergei Vavilov, president of the Soviet Academy of Science, said that 100,000 Russians were now engaged in "scientific work." Soviet physicists had separated U-235 by thermal diffusion (a process used at Oak Ridge, Tenn.) at the Dnepropetrovsk power plant in 1942 before the Nazis destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ATOMIC ACTIVITY | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...started with Alexander the Great," explained Senator Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) to a surprised President Conant before a committee investigating the appointment of David E. Lillienthal as Atomic Energy Chief. The subject of discussion was atom splitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Listens to Senator, Discovers Atom 'Old Stuff' | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

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