Word: cobalt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...largest city, where today supermarkets and the luxurious Hotel Leopold II rise from the cool, 5,000-ft.-high plateau. Nor to them does any "outsider" have any right to share in the revenues of the rich mines and plants that produce and process the copper, tin, uranium, and cobalt (60% of free world output) developed by Belgium's fat Union Minière du Haut-Katanga...
...problem solving, some of it is quite practical. Sample: How do you find out how much fallout there is on a house from an atom blast without exploding a bomb? Tech Ops' answer was to build a scaled-down city, surround it with plastic tubing through which radioactive cobalt 60 is pumped, and then measure the fallout. The results are projected to a full-scale city. Through such experiments for the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Tech Ops will make recommendations for realistic civil defense measures...
...faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize," says CB, ''we could absolutely blow up the entire world? Smashing." The muddling has just begun...
...Congo, the narrowing western edge around Leopoldville, which is the Congo's only outlet to the sea. Then, 1,500 miles inland, the British-controlled Rhodesian Federation was talking of annexing the Congo's Katanga province, which produces 60% of Congo wealth from a mineral-rich (copper, cobalt, diamonds, uranium) strip lying directly to the north of the Rhodesias...
...rocket's metal casing before all its fuel is consumed, causing a disastrous blowout. To eliminate such a mishap, each booster is taken to a fenced-off area blazoned with signs warning against radiation. There it is wrapped in X-ray film, and a speck of fiercely radioactive cobalt 60 is thrust into its cavity. When the films are developed, they show up any air bubbles...