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Considered by his colleagues an outstanding authority in the field of atomic energy, Wilson is presently engaged in developing the massive new University cyclotron that will be assembled near Oxford and Everett Streets sometime this spring. Cement-pouring operations on the three-foot concrete base that will support the atom-smasher will be speeded up by the recent break in a cold spell that had frozen the site...
Sometime this spring shiny segments of a new University atom-smasher will begin to arrive at what was once a vacant plot of Oxford and Everett streets, where a three-foot thick concrete foundation for the elephantine cyclotron is now reaching completion...
...rough weather, George Fleitz, 32, of Los Angeles, in his Wench II, set a world record for the 10-mile round-the-buoys course. Time: 1:37:33. His Wench II piled up so many points on the record day that Owner Fleitz marched off with the three-foot silver trophy, after a ceremonious ducking in the refuse-filled Almendares River...
Incensed when City Editor Lou Young of the Los Angeles Herald & Express canceled her day off, Aggie barged across the city room, proceeded to belabor him about the arms and neck with her handiest weapon-a three-foot barracuda which a fisherman had just given her. City Editor Young heard the laughter, decided it was best to join...
...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...