Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blue. In Vancouver, Wash., Kauffman Street residents took cover when a berserk robin terrorized the neighborhood with Kamikaze dives...
Last week General Electric completed a dicker to take over, from Du Pont, the management of the $347,000,000 Government-owned plant at Hanford, Wash. Although the three great piles in the Hanford desert were built to produce plutonium for bombs, their byproduct is unharnessed energy in enormous quantities. G.E. will run the piles at cost plus $1. Its profit will be in priceless experience...
Swap. In Tacoma, Wash., safecrackers burgled a meat market, took $450, left a ticket to the policemen's ball...
...Wenatchee (Wash.) World could get no paper, and the mill that supplied it could get no logs. Last week Publisher Rufus Woods, the portly sage of central Washington journalism, thought of a way to break the log jam. He rallied 30 staffers, borrowed axes and crosscut saws, led his band into a stand of timber...
...them, radioactive poisons, was mentioned briefly and guardedly in the Smyth Report. Wrote Professor Smyth: ". . . The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000 kw. chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The three plutonium piles at Richland, Wash. are enormously more powerful. If Professor Smyth's estimate was right, each pile has been producing, every day for more than a year, enough radioactive poisons to depopulate many "large areas...