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...they must be rushed to their destinations by air and used at once, before their radioactivity has been frittered away. The Clinton Laboratories pop them into stainless steel and lead containers (weighing up to 1,600 Ibs.) and speed them by truck to the Knoxville airport. Prices vary widely. Carbon 14, one of the big sellers, costs $50 per millicurie* (if made by the old-fashioned cyclotron method, it would cost $1,000,000). In the past year Oak Ridge made 1,092 shipments to 161 U.S. users, none to foreign countries...
...Baby Joe." Catholic nuns in black and starched white waited at rough, wooden tables, poured stiff jolts of whiskey into paper cups for the grimy, beaten rescue crews. The news from underground was always bad. They found dozens of men who had been killed by the black damp (carbon dioxide) which had rolled out of old side entries opened by the blast. But it was worse farther on. Crews working near the blast had been burned, riddled with flying coal, and squeezed by concussion until their chests caved in and their tongues protruded...
Superficially, the new Japanese labor movement looks like a blurred carbon of the U.S. model. The N.F.L.U. came back under one of its old leaders-dignified, Christian, 59-year-old Komakichi Matsuoka, who has been called the "William Green of Japan" and hates Communists just as much. A more radical group promptly established the N.C.I.U. as a Japanese counterpart of the C.I.O., made a smart but little-known newspaperman named Katsumi Kikunami its chairman. Kikunami (who had a Nisei nephew killed in Italy fighting with the U.S. Army), though no Red himself, accepted Communist support. From this springboard...
Harvard track is experiencing a post-war renaissance. Evolving from the carbon-copy war teams, the current Varsity machine now finds itself within striking distance of the Heptagonal ladder's top rung, which it occupied in the spring...
...Hiccups are spasms of the diaphragm resulting from irritation of the phrenic nerves. Causes: swallowing something hot, or any one of a wide variety of diseases. In minor cases, holding the breath, breathing in a paper bag (to get carbon dioxide), sneezing, salt and lemon juice or a teaspoon of whiskey may be effective...