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...when they don't work too well. In the diffusion process, for instance, the U-235 has only to be pure enough to be "fissionable." If the Russian apparatus is inferior, their U-235 is just as explosive as if it came from the great precision plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...hours after the 210 top amateur golfers s"et out to decide who would be U.S. champion for 1949, the tournament came to a water-logged stop. Rain beat down on Rochester's Oak Hill course. When play was resumed, it was too dark for Ted Bishop, the 1946 champion, to complete his first-round match-and he bowed early next morning to a Denver schoolteacher named John Kraft...
...When Oak Ridge released the radioactive byproducts of its atomic pile for private use in 1946, few U.S. businessmen paid much attention. But to a handful of young M.I.T.-trained scientists it was big news; they were ready to cash in on the first U.S. commercial use of atomic energy. They had already pooled their $31,000 in savings to form Tracerlab, Inc., and had rented dilapidated quarters down near Boston's South Station...
...Massachusetts' Raytheon Manufacturing Co. stock. He risked the major part ($26,000) of Tracerlab's first capital and started making an "Autoscaler," a highly sensitive machine for hospitals and laboratories to measure radioactivity. Tracerlab also began marketing elements which had been made radioactive by insertion in the Oak Ridge atomic pile. Tracerlab put these radioactive isotopes in usable chemical forms for hospitals and laboratories...
Philip Murray waited for silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension...