Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The AEC does not agree with the theory-advanced by a Navy witness in the Congressional hearings on the Navy's revolt against unification-that atom bombs are not so destructive. They are extremely destructive, said the AEC report. The report considered only the effects of bombs like the...
Fiery Mop-Up. These immediate effects, the AEC pointed out, would be only the beginning. Through the wrecked or damaged buildings-littered with splintered timbers, furniture, papers and merchandise-fire would spring up and spread. Fire-fighting equipment would be trapped in demolished firehouses or hampered by rubble-choked streets...
Dr. Pomerantz figured that near the north magnetic pole in northeastern Canada the earth's magnetic field is so feeble that even the most sluggish rays should make the grade. He also reasoned that if he could find rays so feeble that they could not theoretically get through the...
With the backing of the National Geographic Society and the help of the Defense Research Board of Canada, Dr. Pomerantz launched high-flying balloons from Churchill on Hudson Bay. At this point of feeble earth magnetism, Geiger counters attached to the balloons found what Dr. Pomerantz was looking for: cosmic...
Everybody Sad? Many of the bankers and economists saw no reason why the U.S. should not cut its spending and put its house in order. They aimed their fire at the Government's multitude of overlapping lending bureaus which had put out more than $20 billions in loans and...