Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richland's inhabitants, for the most part, seemed fairly satisfied with their lot. But the city's young Mayor David McDonald, an earnest, 34-year-old atomic chemist, missed the leavening of free enterprise. It was little things that set him thinking. Once he tried to stop some youngsters who were robbing his backyard peach tree, and got a sassy, truthful reply: "Our teacher says that everything in Richland belongs to the Government." A neighbor came home from work one evening to find his carefully nurtured flower bed torn up; that was where the Master Plan decreed that...
...Chemist's Sister at Wellesley...
Remember the sweet kick to that Briggs Hall kiss Saturday night? Well, bub, a chemist put it there...
Laurence, tipped off last spring by a chemist friend of the theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked...
When he became president in 1933, Chemist Conant thought that he would never teach a class again. The atom bomb changed his mind. As wartime head of the National Defense Research Committee, he was horrified at the scientific illiteracy around him. Some of his like-minded colleagues, like Chemist Harold Urey of the University of Chicago, decided to spread understanding by direct political lobbying. Conant felt that he should carry on his own crusade in the classroom...