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...true that Ella Reeve Bloor "helped Upton Sinclair investigate the horrors of Chicago's stockyards, which he dramatized in his novel The Jungle [TiME, Aug. 20]." My investigating was done in the autumn of 1904, and E.R.B. had nothing to do with...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...
...been a suffragette, a temperance worker, a Socialist, a fiery fighter in lost causes in the half-forgotten day of pale little mine breaker-boys and vicious sweatshops. She had been arrested 36 times, from coast to coast. She had been an intimate of Eugene Debs, had helped Upton Sinclair investigate the horrors of Chicago's stockyards, which he dramatized in his novel, The Jungle. She saw the Pennsylvania anthracite strike of 1902, the great Michigan copper strike...
...sources are made by "cooking" cobalt or tantalum tubes (13½ in. long) in Brookhaven's nuclear reactor at Upton, N.Y. There the original metals turn into cobalt-60 and tantalum-182, both of which emit gamma rays with more than 1,000,000 electron volts of energy...
...UPTON SINCLAIR...