Word: atomization
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...handsome, enlightened, 34-year-old Maharaja, who in 1937 established a university for technological research, has now said that he wants to build thorium refining plants, and perhaps even experiment with nuclear fission, in Travancore. That was a reminder that the great powers had no permanent monopoly on the atom...
Nobody but Einstein and a few other people can understand what goes on in the mind of Nobel Prizewinning atom-smasher Enrico Fermi. But one Fermi theory is intelligible to all, and last week 192 students at the University of Chicago were enjoying its practice. The theory: that elementary science courses must be well taught if students are to do well in advanced classes. At Chicago, for the first time in about 15 years of teaching in Italy and the U.S., Dr. Fermi was teaching an elementary physics class himself...
Soviet newspapers carrying the Zhdanov speech featured a cartoon captioned Crew of Warmongers. It showed a fire truck driven by a cigar-smoking Churchill. The other firemen were Hearst, Baruch (with a bucketful of atom bombs), Franco, a Turk and a Greek. Said a poem accompanying the cartoon: "Although this crew carries a fire hose, it's really a flame thrower...
...atom was looking for jobs in private industry...
Last week the War Department announced that it would finance a $20,000,000 nuclear research laboratory at "The Knolls," near Schenectady, N.Y. Complete with "uranium reactor," powerful atom smashers, a "hot lab" and other baleful equipment, it would work in close cooperation with General Electric Co.'s great new research laboratory, now under construction. Principal objective: atomic power for peaceful purposes...