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...Last year Banker Giannini decided that his personal fortune was too big. He hurriedly put $500,000 of it into a fund for bank training and medical research. His explanation: "Hell, why should a man pile up a lot of goddamned money for somebody else to spend after he's gone?" His estimate of his wealth today: between...
...many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile. These promise a scientific revolution...
...pile, a rather simple device, consists of uranium rods stuck through a large mass of graphite. Some uranium atoms-those with an atomic weight of 235-split in two, producing energy and shooting out neutrons, which are subatomic particles with zero electric charge. These are the lifeblood of the pile...
Swarming through the pile in billions of billions, these neutrons stir up a storm of unrest among the atoms of every element in it. Some are turned into atoms of different chemical elements, some into different isotopes of the same element. Nearly all are "hot," shooting out rays and energy. Every element is made radioactive...
...Webb was busy counting a pile of coats when J. P. Morgan, the younger, walked in. Said Morgan: "Good morning, Mr. Webb." Said Mr. Webb, looking up: "Oh, good morning, Jack...