Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Curies & Roentgens. Dr. Thirring calculated that each 100 uranium atoms that fission in a pile produce 61 atoms useful as radioactive poisons; i.e., their half-lives are not less than eight days (which would make them become harmless too quickly) or more than a year (which would make them too mild initially...
...poison. He only suggests that it be mixed with powdered sand. This "death sand" (containing .05% of radioactive material) would be applied at a rate of 12 milligrams (1/2500 oz.) per square meter and would be entirely invisible. Less than a ton of death sand, evenly distributed, would make Manhattan a deathtrap...
Since the pictures were about work, Patron Verzocchi wanted to make sure that the worker got a chance to see them. He had chartered a train to carry 600 employees from his brickworks in La Spezia to the show. When it closes in October, Verzocchi intends to send the show on tour, later give most of the pictures to Italian factories to be hung in workers' canteens...
...pleased was Verzocchi with the response to his project that he was planning to launch a free weekly art review with himself as editor. To make life more pleasant for painters, he was also arranging to put up artists and their families free of charge in tents pitched in the gardens of his luxurious villa in the Dolomites. He had already started planning another brick-and-work show to be held at Milan's midsummer fair next year, was inviting sculptors as well as painters to participate. If & when he decides that artists have exhausted the subject of work...
...only one to turn him down: Milan's slow-working Giorgio Morandi (TIME, July 18, 1949), who loves to paint bottles as much as Industrialist Verzocchi loves to make bricks. He was unwilling...