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...then Congress was suddenly and humbly intent on learning about atomic power, was sweating at the very thought of legislating about it. The Committee on Atomic Energy of the Senate started an A-B-C course in nuclear physics, planned to tour the Oak Ridge project in Tennessee. In the House, 60 Congressmen hurried to hear lectures by atomic scientists half their age, listened in absolute stillness. At week's end it was evident that there would be no legislation on atomic power for a while-perhaps months. Congress was starting all over again...
...Four Oak Ridge, Tenn., scientists warned the New York Herald Tribune that the U.S. edge in atomic bomb production is unimportant. Said they: ". . . It is as though two men (who don't trust each other) sit face to face in a locked room, each pointing a loaded machine gun at the other. It makes no difference that one man's gun is a later model, or that he has 1,000 cartridges to the other's 100. Whoever shoots first wins decisively...
Progressive Education. In Raritan Township, N.J., the board of education ruled that, since smoking had become a generally accepted practice, the faculty of Oak Tree School might smoke between classes, in the boiler room...
From Newport, Ark., a farmer wrote a letter to the nonexistent "Atomic Bomb Co." of Oak Ridge, Tenn.: "I have some stumps in my field that I should like to blow out. Have you got any atomic bombs the right size for the job? If you have let me know by return mail, and let me know how much they cost. I think I should like them better than dynamite...
Industrially, too, the atomic bomb may save more money than it cost ($2,000,-000,000). A. L. Baker of the Kellex Corp. of Oak Ridge (code name: Dogpatch), Tenn. last week issued an impressive list of non-atomic advances made while the bomb was in production. Among them...