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...Other element-hunters polished off some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...
George Could Have Done It. Allen's charges against SHAEF and British Field Marshal Montgomery are heated and serious, but military men and plain readers alike will be apt to notice a lack of documentation for Author Allen's conclusions. Says Allen of the Falaise gap: "The trap was set. All that remained was to spring it. ... There was nothing...
...delegate summed up the prevailing mood at the Grand Palais: "Europe will have to work harder. The United States will have to ... [help] fill the inevitable gap during the next four years. But it's no good sending dollars; they return to America like homing pigeons...
...these restrictions were intended to reduce the drain on Britain's dwindling dollar supply; 'but they would close only a third of the gap between what Britain sold abroad and what she bought abroad. The other side of the scale was British production. A higher production rate was supposed to close the other two-thirds of the import-export gap. If every coal miner worked five minutes more a day, for instance, he would produce as much in exports as the British Government hopes to save by the new gasoline restrictions. What were the chances that British production...
...stalks through the dirty corridors of his editorial domain, gaunt, gap-toothed, his black hair tousled and his mouth agape like that of a man who has just established contact with a bad oyster, watching the next issue grow and arguing minute points of fact, taste, punctuation, or policy...