Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raids. Israel was getting ready for its first general election. The wardens had been pressed into service to distribute identity cards to the voters. This week, over 400,000 people were expected to go to the polls to elect a Constituent Assembly. The Assembly's 120 members* in turn would write Israel's constitution and act as Israel's parliament. With the Arabs defeated, it remained to be seen how Israel's Jews, who have come together from all corners of the globe, would manage to live in one country...
...Shot in the Arm. Huachipato's pig-iron capacity of 205,000 metric tons makes it only half as big as Volta Redonda, and tiny by Pittsburgh standards. But the 235,000 tons of steel it is expected to turn out each year when full production is reached will make Chile virtually self-sufficient in steel...
...bought a chain of seven twice-a-week giveaways in the rich Santa Monica Bay area of Los Angeles. Then he hired some high-priced talent, including ex-Hearstling Merrill Lord as general manager and the Los Angeles News's Charles Judson as executive editor, to help turn his giveaways (circ. 42,000) into good newspapers...
Considine manages to turn out a daily newspaper column ("On the Line"), two weekend features, magazine articles, movie scripts and a weekly radio talk, and he finds time to cover the big stories (Bikini, the Olympics, Election Night, etc.). But a large sheaf of the copy that pours from Bob Considine's overworked typewriter carries somebody else's byline above his own. At 42, he is one of the solidest, most successful and least anonymous of ghostwriters. His annual income...
...fourth corner post of physics, still unknown, Gamow says, will probably be an "elementary length" which will divide space into "smallest" units, just as Planck's Constant divided the flow of energy into "smallest" bursts (the "quantum" of the quantum theory). Gamow suspects that this missing length may turn out to be about 10 -13 centimeter (one ten-trillionth of a centimeter). A length close to this shows up as the radius of an electron, and as the effective range of forces in the atomic nuclei. "All kinds of physical considerations," says Gamow, "become senseless when...