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Atomic Housecleaning Reporting for work at General Electric's plutonium plant in Hanford, Wash., a night watchman began the routine of checking in. He stopped before an Alpha radiation counter about the size and shape of a soft-drink machine, casually stuck his hands in, and listened for the amplified clicks by which the sensitive instrument registers its count. The chatter he heard from the machine shocked the startled patrolman right out of his routine, sent him rushing to the Health Instruments Division. There, doctors quickly confirmed the machine's verdict. His hands were emitting more radiation than...
...those in the syndicate with Lurie, who will put up at least $5,000,000 of his own: California's Transamerica Corp. ($5,000,000), Broadway Producer Lee Shubert, Independent Film Producer Sol Lesser, who makes the Tarzan movies, Wall Street Brokers Charles Allen Jr. and Samuel Ungerleider, Watchman Arde Bulova ($1,000,000 each...
When a girl forgets to sign in, the night watchman discovers the blank space on his rounds and awakens the house president who looks for the girl, usually found asleep in her room...
...loose ends after the war, he trekked west to San Francisco and took a job as watchman at the U.S. mint. On the side, he read Gibbon and Pope, minted an acrid style of his own. In 1867, he managed to get a grisly romantic poem published in the Californian, and from then on journalism, more accurately, invective journalism, was his business...
...hair-raising climb on a 30-foot ladder brought them to the tower's second level, where they repeated the operation on four more bulbs. Lowell House officials knew nothing about the affairs until the night watchman turned the lights on in honor of Lowell's opera, "Amadis...