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Serious discrepancies had already appeared in Japanese financial and industrial reports to General MacArthur's headquarters. Example: silver bars. When U.S. officers found an unreported hoard of silver concealed under a pile of steel scrap in a factory, the Japanese explained that they had not meant to falsify the questionnaire on precious metals; they thought the military government had asked them to report on stocks of quicksilver...
Would U.S. art-lovers get to see what is perhaps the biggest pile of art treasure ever to cross an ocean? Said the Army: "It is not contemplated ... at present...
Under the steps, he finds a pile of little human bones. So he strangles his wife and has his children properly buried. "It is said that he was never able to eat meat again...
...converted John Cannaday, ex-quarterback and guard, into a center; he moved Russ Deal from guard to tackle. Burly Howie Brown, thrice wounded in Europe, showed up just after the Michigan game, and plugged a hole at guard. Another ex-G.I, All-America End Pete Pihos, became a pile-driving fullback. Negro Halfback George Taliaferro, a freshman, blossomed fast under Bo's compelling...
...which the General could not see was plenty for the chemists. Working with solutions measured in microlitres (7,000ths of a teaspoon), they accurately determined plutonium's chemical properties. Then they devised a complex process for separating it from the fiercely radioactive by-products of the uranium-plutonium pile at Hanford, Washington. The pile produced at least ico different byproducts. Most are unstable isotopes of familiar elements (the same periodic numbers but different atomic weights...