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...Beck. With a vanadium steel chisel and a four-pound jackhammer, La Paz succeeded in breaking off a piece the size of a pea. Beck found that the substance had a density of 18.63 (density of lead: 11.34). A commercial chemist in Albuquerque confirmed their suspicions that the chunk was solid metallic uranium, which does not occur in nature, has to be refined from uranium ore by elaborate processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Buried Treasure | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...Dalhart, the thrills were not yet over. The FBI, after poking around the town for days, found another piece of pure uranium weighing 64 Ibs. on a junk heap only three blocks from the scene of the first discovery. Estimates of the value of the 33-lb. chunk found by Don ranged from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Buried Treasure | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Selective Service has apparently failed to take a sizable chunk out of College enrollment, for 3,332 upperclassmen swarmed back to Memorial Hall yesterday, leaving only 109 undergraduates still unregistered. Some 60 to 80 of these are probably late registrants, Registrar Sargent Kennedy said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Effects of Draft Appear Slight as College Registers | 9/25/1951 | See Source »

...going forward," Wieland seemed to have left a good chunk of the traditional Wagner audience behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Twilight of the Gods | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

About 2½ billion years ago, a ball of whirling gases, intensely hot and rushing through the black spaces of the universe at immense speed, gradually became the earth. At one point, a great chunk of earthly substance was torn away-and the earth had a moon. The atmosphere developed, then came countless years of rain, filling in great gaps on the earth's surface. Thus the oceans were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Profile in Water | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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