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...river's edge. Then he began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience had ever before heard anything like it. KFAR in its first coverage...
Energy Profit. Fission was revolutionary, sensational-not only because the heaviest of all elements had been cracked wide open, but because of the tremendous energy profit. Up to then, scientists had always had to put more energy into their projectiles than was released in the breakup. Now, an explosion of about 200,000,000 electron-volts was touched off by idling neutrons of less than one electron-volt. Matter equal to about one-fifth of a neutron's mass was converted into energy according to the Einstein formula...
...those who had sniped at Harry Hopkins for his disciple's relation to Roosevelt, his overwhelming influence in the "Palace Guard." Truman had continued to use Hopkins' knowledge and counsel. It was Hopkins, more than anyone else, who saved the San Francisco conference from a precipitous breakup (TIME, June 1). But Harry Truman also knew that Harry Hopkins would eventually leave. He wrote warmly in reply ("I know how much your tireless energy had to do with the carrying on of the war in all parts of the globe"), and that was that...
...Breakup of all large land holdings into small farms...
Hunger for Magic. If there is one thing above all that can be isolated as the cause of fascism, says Flynn, it is the growth of an unwieldy public debt. In Italy, shortly after the peninsula was unified for the first time since the breakup of the Roman Empire, popular education and the modern newspaper gave Italians hope that abundance might be wrung from the bony ridges of their ancient land. But neither the schoolteachers nor the journalists could tell individual Italians how they might create that abundance. And so the first great prerequisite for fascism appeared: a wide spread...