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Isotope Rush. One group of Oak Ridge scientists is already doing a growing business in radioactive isotopes. Every week, with elaborate precaution, they pull a lead plug from a hole in the massive concrete shield around the Clinton pile. Out comes a graphite bar studded with little aluminum cans of chemicals which have been exposed to the storm of neutrons raging inside the pile. These contain the isotopes for which the world of science is clamoring. Sealed in heavy lead shipping cases, they are rushed to hospitals and research laboratories...
...Over the Moon. That cotton broke the day after President Truman pulled the plug on controls (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was purely coincidental. But it was not so with other commodities. Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July...
...most expensive Eversharp set then retailed for $8.75. Straus brought out a $14.75 set (the old one with gold trimmings), picked up a radio show to plug it. The show, Take It or Leave It, put a new phrase into the language ("the $64 question") and put Eversharp on the map. Then Eversharp found its own $64 answer, a $64 pen & pencil set. In two years, it sold $32,000,000 worth of the new sets, and $4,875,000 of solid gold $125 sets...
Joseph Conn is a radio fan, but he hates commercials. He has his own way of dodging them. Whenever he feels a commercial coming, he turns off his set by merely clapping his hands. Another handclap starts his radio blaring again when he thinks the plug is ended. A "commercial eradicator," which Conn invented, does the trick...
...good will were busy with two wishful new publications. They hoped that their magazines might help prevent the postwar world from turning into a prewar world. One would plug federal union as the way to peace; the other...