Word: willards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressure never bothered Willard Libby...
...boarding house near the University of California at Berkeley, a strapping, reddish-haired sophomore named Willard Frank Libby met two graduate students. Their talk about chemical research was so exciting that Libby forgot his yearning to be a mining engineer, and switched to chemistry. Because of that chance meeting, Willard Libby, 46, sat in Geneva's stately Palace of Nations this week as the ranking U.S. scientist and the chief U.S. spokesman at man's first international effort to release the unplumbed benefits of peaceful atomic energy...
...operation run by a farmer who has learned to buy machines and make them pay. With bigger crops from his machines and a good income, he can afford to pay high land prices to buy more acres, make more money, and thus buy still more land. Ten years ago Willard Wedberg of Fremont Neb. had two hired hands to help work 320 acres of corn land! Last year, with bigger and better cultivators and tractors he farmed 520 acres with only one part-time helper...
Died. Josiah Willard Hayden, 81, president (since 1937) of the $70 million Charles Hayden Foundation (founded by his bachelor brother, Wall Street Financier Charles Hayden), distributor of some $20 million of the foundation's money for the "well-being, uplifting and development of boys and young men"; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Arlington, Mass...
...distasteful job of Atomic Energy Commission officials is to tell Americans what to do if a similar bomb should contaminate a part of the U.S. Instructions prepared by AECommissioner Willard F. Libby contain little cheer...