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When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
...fight to keep reconversion prices close to 1942 levels, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week caught a tartar and found a potent ally. The tartar was sandy-haired, aggressive Edward N. Hurley Jr., board chairman of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. (Thor washers and ironers...
Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...
...Iceland were independent of Denmark, it would come within the sphere of either British or U.S. influence. In Washington, Iceland's Minister Thor Thors made it plain that his country looks to the U.S. as its first big neighbor. But that alone would not decide the issue; at the peace table little Iceland's status would be a problem that the U.S. and Great Britain would have to settle...
...institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands of years." In England, as Minister, he said that American study of Europe had convinced America that she could no more go back to her institutions than she could take up the worship of Thor. "The experiment is made," he said with calm finality, "and has completely succeeded...