Word: washes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This momentous experiment-the very first chain reaction-marked the beginning of the Atomic Age. The pile was successful. Long before the queasy process had been reduced to an orderly procedure, a gigantic, full-sized plutonium plant had been started at Hanford on the desert near Yakima, Wash. Advantages of the unattractive site: isolation, a good supply of Grand Coulee power and the Columbia River which would carry away the enormous heat generated in the piles...
...something from a nightmare with an ugly gaping mouth, and had no fins, like other fish, for swimming north and south; this four-foot thing used two long arms to push it 'round the ocean, and (we presume) to wash its face whene'er it had the notion...
Woman's Place. In Ellensburg, Wash., the Daily Record ran a want ad, "Girl or woman for general housework," under Farm Machinery...
While window dressers wash down the mannequins in the department stores, Weegee shows the city asleep-in gutters, on fire escapes and park benches, six in a parked car. He photographs the dreamy abstracted faces watching the ambulance doctors at work. He catches the mayor off-guard, a Negro mother and daughter watching a fire from which another daughter and her baby cannot escape, Bowery barflies taking their ease, a shabby woman staring at operagoing finery (see cuts...
...distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...