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After each shot, AEC crews follow the wanderings of the dust as it drifts across the U.S. They draw it into airborne filters (like household vacuum cleaners) or catch it on gummed paper (like flypaper). At 121 weather bureau stations, similar equipment picks up the drifting dust. According to AEC, no dangerous "fallout" of radioactive dust has occurred outside the test area...
...Socony-Vacuum Oil Company has established a new fellowship at the University for a graduate student in the field of petroleum exploration sciences...
...pages, Edgar Johnson's critical biography of Charles Dickens is the definitive treatment of Dickens only in the sense that a vacuum cleaner is the definitive treatment for a rug. Seven years of earnest scholarship together with access to much fresh Dickens material have enabled Biographer Johnson to pick up every fact worth knowing about his hero. As biography, his book is complete, conscientious and fleetingly dramatic. As criticism, it is a hothanded fan letter posing as a balance sheet. Constant prose transfusions from Dickens keep the book alive, and for the rest, the author relies on a quality...
...form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...
...Jersey Standard, Standard of California, Socony-Vacuum, Texas Co., Gulf...