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...happen naturally, chiefly because only one part in 140 of ordinary uranium is U-235. Most of the rest is another isotope, U-238-which, instead of splitting like U-235, absorbs the newborn neutrons with the result that the atomic flame goes out like a match in wet excelsior...
...Yale game went up again this week as V-J reports promised some easement in the travel situation, but hard-headed observers have wet-blanketed the idea. Ivy League schedules have always been drawn up months, even years, in advance, and it's too late now to change things for 1945, even though the end of November is still three months...
Four thousand miles from Independence, Mo., Harry Truman threw a wet blanket over fellow Americans' eagerness to travel. Congressmen who wanted to widen their horizons by trips overseas during the recess were told by the President they would have to pay their own expenses ($725.65 via A.T.C. New York to Paris...
...Winds. The weather was not all wet: Los Angeles had recorded only a tenth of an inch of rain since April 1. In the Midwest, summer's first good hot spell perked up the backward corn crop and the farmers' hopes. In the Pacific Northwest, hot winds pushed giant fires through unnaturally dry forests (see cut), near the 250,000-acre wasteland left by Oregon's "Tillamook burn...
...minutes). Its power is a kerosene-burning jet engine: it has no propeller. Its round nose houses six 50-cal. machine guns. On its wings it can carry either bombs or fuel tanks. Wings and torpedo-like fuselage are painted and polished to the slickness of a wet...