Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan. When nuclear tests are impending, whether by the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., all sorts of instruments are checked and tuned for superfine sensitivity. This year a survey ship, the Shunkotsu Maru, carrying scientists and scientific apparatus, has been cruising near the danger area in the Pacific, and tuna boats have been gathering radioactive dust. Japanese scientists relish the fact that they are the only ones in the world who make observations and report them openly...
...residue into the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine dust. The explosion on March 1, 1954 behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type...
...under the influence of cubism and expressionism. It is one of the best examples of its type." Says Benefactor May, who paid $1,200 for the canvas in the late '40s; "He [Knaths] abstracts nature, but it is still recognizable. Horse Mackerel is an abstraction of a giant tuna. One who looks carefully will see the form of the tuna, the boom it hangs from, and a portion of the pier. There are dynamic waves in the background-waves of beautiful color...
...Japanese may not come within 100 miles of the Communist China coast. The coastal waters of North America, once a plentiful source of salmon and halibut, are now closed to Japan by a U.S. Canadian agreement that occupied Japan was persuaded to sign. And in the vast mid-Pacific tuna and bonito grounds, the U.S. has posted a 421,500-sq.-mi. nuclear testing area, which jittery Japanese fishermen have given a wide berth since radioactive ash fell on the Fortunate Dragon...
...Naked Sea. The saga of a tuna clipper: a fish story with some spectacular truth in it (TIME...