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Alpha rays are stopped by clothing, beta rays by slightly thicker materials. But if a tiny speck which generates one of them gets into the body, it may radiate quietly until it has started a cancer or done some quicker damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem of the Age | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Cadillac sedan at its head. When the procession reached the end of the International Highway's hard surface, construction gangs served mezcal, drunk with maguey worm salt. Thereafter the road became a mule path that dipped into canyon beds, clung to mountainsides. The sun grew hotter, the dust thicker; passengers climbed out to lighten loads. In streams-shallow at the dry season-drivers parked to cool their tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO,ARGENTINA: Backwoods Barnstormer | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Sands farce is about a couple of Coney Island tin-horns, Benny Baker and Sid Melton, who whitewash an elephant and pass him off, in the disapproved carnival style, as a sacred and genu-wine Indian white pachyderm. Things get more elaborate, but the plot is never much thicker than the coat of whitewash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/25/1946 | See Source »

...workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: LABOR: Barometer Falling | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...this, along with a highly vocalized romance between Kosciuszko and a Polish girl (Marta Eggerth), is drenched in thicker-than-usual musicomedy mulligatawny. Crowds of peasants, more Ruritanian than Polish, whirl about with almost frightening energy; court balls are halted by the alarums of war; battlefields, bathed in lurid crimson light, are agitated by frantic flag-waving ballets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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