Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lead platoon of Communists approached the pass, some overeager G.I.s opened fire, instead of waiting to trap the next unit. "I was asleep when they cut loose," Shelton said, "then the next thing I knew, enemy bullets were coming into my hole." But the suddenly awakened soldiers discovered that their buddies had the situation under control. Blasts from U.S. BARs and salvo after salvo from 75-mm. recoilless rifles ripped into the advancing Reds, pinning some to the clifflike wall of the pass, hurling others into the roadside ditches. Within minutes, the first wave of the Communist attack had been...
...explain these many puzzling facts. But just making a start on collecting the facts was the fulfillment of a 20-year dream for the U.S.'s Dr. Alexander Symeonidis, who had long been urging just such a meeting. Dr. Symeonidis is consultant to the recently formed Geographic Pathology Unit of the National Cancer Institute of Bethesda, Md. Said Cancer Expert Symeonidis...
Said the committee: "Because of the tyrannical grip a small clique has upon the W-T&S unit . . . anyone who questions the leadership is called a traitor . . . The time has come for a reasonable and fair approach ... Scripps-Howard has money in the bank. Some of us no longer have." The committee suggested that the dispute over security, the chief issue, be settled by accepting management's latest offer (the same as in the present New York Times contract...
...rate of reaction of a pile is measured in kilowatts, so Thirring calculates how much war-useful radioactivity could be produced per kilowatt. The answer comes out in curies, the unit of radioactivity, and Thirring figures that for each kilowatt a pile produces in a month 250 curies of radioactive poisons...
...deadly is a curie? Thirring starts with the assumption that 2,000 roentgens (the unit of radiation) will kill a man. After considering many factors, he concludes that a radioactive poison spread over the ground at the rate of two curies per square meter would give a man eight roentgens of radiation per hour. In about ten days this would build up to the lethal dose of 2,000 roentgens. The period of grace, thinks Ridenour, makes radiological poison a rather humane weapon. The inhabitants of a contaminated city could save their lives if they set out promptly...