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Apparently Dr. Slotin and seven or more other scientists were working with "subcritical masses" of uranium or plutonium. Kept apart, these masses were lifeless as lead, but if brought together to form a mass above "critical" size, a chain reaction would start. Its violence would depend on the character of the materials. Probably they were midway in activity between mild-mannered natural uranium and furious plutonium...
Piper does not plan to be in production on the Skysedan before the middle of 1947. So the price will depend upon material and labor costs then. But the price will probably be "under $5,000." Quipped Secretary William T. Piper Jr.: "It will be the best buy on the market, but it won't ever replace the automobile...
Greying, affable Ed Jones is the biggest boss and at the same time the golden goose of Chicago's $25 million-a-year policy syndicate. As such, his well-being is the concern of thousands. His syndicate employs some 5,000 Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...
...latest gesture to the upward spiral of living costs, the University has granted pay raises to as 10 percent to its non-academic employees. Yet Harvard officialdom seems callously unconcerned about the needs of its student workers who depend upon the pay of their term-time jobs to meet a sizeable portion of their college expenses. Wages for students employed by or through the University have remained unchanged since long before the war. Baby-sitters still receive 25 cents an hour; House librarians, 35; students working in the dining halls or on odd jobs are paid 60 cents an hour...
Whether a member of the University goes to Europe this summer to attend the Student International Conference in Prague will depend on the result of the Student Council poll to be taken in the House dining halls this evening. Commuters will vote at Dudley this afternoon...