Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Its essential part is a spherical stainless steel tank one foot in diameter. Inside is a water solution of uranyl nitrate which contains 1.9 lb. of fissionable U-235. Water running through a coiled tube keeps the reactor cool, and another tube piercing the sphere gives access to its interior...
The most remarkable deal of all involved 4,000,000 Ibs. of copper which went to Red China before the Korean war. It was bought in Japan for shipment to New York. Because of the New York destination, a Japanese export license was easily obtained. In transit, the copper was...
Cheered by talk of an early end to the Korean war and fading chances for the excess profits tax in the lame-duck session of Congress (see above), the Dow-Jones industrials rose to 235.47 (up 4.8 points in a week), the highest since the autumn of 1930. The rails...
Down to a bunting-draped Milwaukee depot one morning last week rode 75 bewhiskered, top-hatted men and hoopskirted women in three horse-drawn wagons. They piled into two yellow and maroon coaches and set off for a round trip to Wauwatosa, five miles westward, hauled by the same tiny...
But the road had something more substantial than an anniversary to celebrate. The Milwaukee Road, long one of the nation's sickest, was looking healthy again. It had suffered many ills Topheavy operating costs, plus the farm depression in the '20s, forced it into bankruptcy in 1925 in...