Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's great Lord Rutherford, the man who first smashed the atom, he worked there on magnetism, which was only indirectly connected with nuclear energy. Since magnetism was best studied at extremely low temperatures, Kapitza became an authority on the liquefaction of gases at close to absolute zero...
...telescopic observation of the stars. After 1833, their officers watched a 5-ft. ball on a pole above Sir Christopher's building. When it dropped, the "Greenwich time" was 1 p.m. The custom led, in 1884, to an international agreement fixing the meridian of Greenwich as "zero longitude." The maps of the world still use this north-and-south line as a starting point. The world's clocks are still set by reference to its time...
...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...
During its four years of war work, the lab produced an electric suit that could keep an inactive man warm at 40 degrees below zero and discovered that vitamin requirements were the same under all temperature conditions...
Most underwriting, cashing in on low interest rates and a sellers' market, was in refinancing ($4.6 billion, a record). But new-money issues, nearly zero in wartime, when the Government paid the freight, started popping forth as soon as peace came to Europe, were blossoming thick & fast going into 1946. As the pastures grew green again in private financing, the volume of U.S. long-term Government issues faded off from a 1944 high of $52.4 to $47.3 billion...