Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet chemistry did not win much admiration from visiting U.S. chemists. Dr. Leon Dorfman, chemist at Argonne National Laboratory, saw no outstanding programs in chemistry, and a lot that were pretty poor. Dr. Dorfman suspects that for some reason the Russians have not routed their best men into chemistry.
Off the Leash. All U.S. scientists were delighted and touched by the universal friendliness of Soviet scientists. In every branch of science the Russians were eager to meet and talk with Americans. They read American journals, and in most cases are frank to admit that they measure their own progress...
When the rocket-launched atom bombs of Project Argus were exploded last year 300 miles above the South Atlantic (TIME, March 30), most of the ionized particles the explosions created were picked up by the earth's magnetic field and lofted in arching curves around the earth in a...
In the thin, high, outer fringe of the atmosphere, the Fort Monmouth men explained, the atoms of gas are ionized by solar ultraviolet light into positively charged nuclei and negative electrons. Theory suggested that at a certain altitude above the earth this charged plasma should have a sort of elasticity...
Barely three hours after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley steel injunction (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), workers were on their way back to the mills. In Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and other steel centers across the U.S., the millwrights, pipe fitters and laborers moved in to repair and start up...