Word: hot
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...come through a boyhood in Manhattan's slums, started at the bottom of General Electric's ladder as an office boy and made his way to its $275,000-a-year top. Thanks to two famous Washington scraps of World War II, he knew a governmental hot potato before he caught...
...fish of the Columbia have been affected by this phenomenon. Although the radioactive stuff does not seem to hurt them much, they become radioactive enough to "take their own pictures." When a "hot" fish caught near Hanford is laid overnight on a photographic plate, it leaves an impression showing its bones, gills and head glands where the radioactivity has concentrated...
Eventually, says the AEC, the fish in the lower Savannah may become a bit radioactive, but not as hot as they would be if the river were less pure...
...National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission had a peculiar problem with its library. Scattered widely around the great reservation are many individual laboratories, and the scientists could not use the central library without great waste of time in transit. Worse yet, some of Oak Ridge's laboratories are "hot" (radioactive), and borrowed papers which might pick up radioactivity in a hot lab could not be returned to the library...
...high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...