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Bul-
taken and the risk paid off."
of
an
For it now emerges on the face of it that the Soviet Union I may be suggested that the Is technically more efficient than Government did not concen» Britain and is comparable to trate suficiently on our atomie
ay the least in productive
project.
finest scientists, Power and organisation with This is a subject on which I It took the America.
questioned the Prime Minister technicians, and engineers
Canada General Groves C.-In-C, of in 1945 and 1940. In reply to America, Britain, and The American bomb project, one of these, on March 5, 1848, less than four years with said it would take them 20 he stated: "It is certainly the nil-out effort at stupendous cost years to produce a bomb.
intention of the Government to produce the atomle The public should be as con- that the needs of atomic re- President Truman said:
the doubtful if such another com- cerned as the experts were sur- search should be accorded prised.
highest priority."
bination could be not together in the world. What has been done is the greatest achievement
At the end of the war we were ahead of the Russians i atomic energy projects, The British-Cabinet was foformerl on the highest authority the atomic bomb was N plete shock to Stalin.
Overtaken
Priority
day onwards that FROM that
atomle energy was Elven COTTI- Prime Minister's List Priorly
in the research that lends to es- ;
The CHAPMAN PINCHER MAN They feared doctors had forgotten them
D
ETAILS of a now drug, EXAMPLE; A cock robin out artano, which brings hunting came across a nigh- relief to sufferers from for food. The robia immediately bour's youngster which begged Parkinson-ism, one of the stuffel 四
young.
תרוסו
down the
most distressing nervous fledgling's gaping mouth, then, complaints, reached me re, as though suddenly realising what it was doing, withdrow it cently.
Artane is not a cure. But and carried it home to its own.. in lengthy tests on 270 patients in New York the Those Minos drug.gave good relief in 76·
* SURPRISĖ reason for, the percent of cases,
Admiralty's refusal to get ex-· In tablet form it rapidly cited when mines are reported reduced the uncontrollablo Roating off Britain's const is trembling of the hands-disclosed by. CAPTAIN J.8. most obvious symptom of COWIE, research chief of the
Underwater Navy's the complaint-and some Department. times stopped it.
"It is extremely difficult to But its main effect was ram'a froely floating mine," he on the mental outlook of the writes. "The chances of a ship being damaged by a mine which patient. The worst symptom hos broken from its moorings of Parkinson-ism is a spirit- destroying depression, which
are channel
The
Weapons
slcamer
is not helped by the know- Princers Astrid, which went ledge that doctors have down after a sudden explosion three months ago, probably set curo to offer and the on
submerged German suspicion that selence is do- "oyster mino-a vicious type Ing nothing to find one.
no
Until the drug is made in Britain it will cost dollars.
It would pay the Govern-
spend them ment to
sential scientific discoveries) we purely economic grounds. are far ahead of any country tai
the world except the U.S.A.
That in not where we fall.
Not So Kind
It is in applied research that * NEWS which we_fail.
people
Poorly paid bomb,
"It is
of organised solence in history,"
Indictment
for the raw materials cancer TE Russians have done it in He also stated that "the peace time, starting prob- programme of atomic research ably from scratch, in the same
T
very
on
a
actuated by the muction caused by npassing ship,
Most of the "oysters" missed have since been set off by gales. by the Navy's minesweepers-
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For making astronomy easily understandable I rate America's IR GROTE RERER as: the best
to. the late S will please miccessor.
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This oil well freak may lose millions
who love to humanise JAMES JEANS, Reber's method To quote my colleague Mr the behaviour of wild creatures of putting over the Immaenalty of Cobb, M.P. for Elland, comer
from Edinburgh bird the Milky Way is a model of such managing director of a company watcher IAN DRUMMOND. He simpl! Milky Way la a giant large-scale production at
manufacturing radio equip-
Tho Dreports seeing a robin help a an early stage was of course, a ment: "Take the cinema, aniline mateless willow warbler feed its aggregation of stars forming a gamble, but as is so necessary dyes, penicillin and radio as five ever-hungry nestlings. dise shaped like a watch. Our in war, a calculated risk was examples. We did the original Fifteen times he watched the solar system may be imagined research and our competitors robin take juicy caterpillars to as a very small speck on the
turns the abroad cashed in because they the youngsters which all even shaft that got on with the applied research tually took off fully feathered hand about midway between more quickly and more progres-from the nest.
the front and back faces of the sively than we did,"
would be nice to interpret watch."
But this as studied kindness. there is too much record *In his interesting "Mines, evidence for the less romantic Muelayers, and Afinctayng" E report of the Department view that it was on
(Oxford University Press, 187.) for Selentine Research for trollable Impulso triggered of 1947-8-the Government's own by the sight of open mouths.
again need for more to the urgent
gan-refers again and trained scientists in Industry. "where a great part of the re- search effort of the country must appropriately be made."
But our scientists are poorly paid. You can make ten this country is not limited time that it took the Americans times as much money by being
a financler or a lawyer. Under PETER KAPITZA, then top by Anancial considerations, bui and British combined.
It will be said that the Rus rationalised industries the post- atomic scientist, was being by the trained scientists
avall- sons obtained much secret in- tion is little better. resources employed on other work. Yet the material
formation through their With between 1945 and 1949 they able."
Column.
It is essential that we should
All that was needed 'was GEOLOGICAL accident bave overtaken us. We are un-
Now, so far as the most im- likely ourselves to be operating
But primarily, the problem of produce more and more selen-
which may have hap- pipeline to Venezuela's nearest energy in tiste and pay them better. It is
big port. Barcelona. large, atomie piles or producing portant resources are concern.
(namely uranfum and producing atomic
The company ralaed £3,500,- of not fair to criticise this Govern-pened 50,000,000 years ago not a matter enough material for one atomic c
the public and thorium) we were and are far quantity is bomb for a considerable time.
any previous This is all the more serious better off than the Russians ac secrets." It is the need for or- ment, which has done far more looks like ruining one of the 000 loans from
Australia Lord Bruce to put up cording to all known estimates, fontsed effort of scientists, tech- for selence thon
therefore, the micians and engineers culmina- Government. But it is certain biggest oil gambles of the persuaded tough ex-Premier of £1,750,000 from his Finance co-operating
engineering rather that our present effort is still 20th century.
pitifully inadequate. Parliament Because of it thin hands Corporation for Industry. The Most Spectacular TECHNICOLOR Picture Of All Timoftists in America
than a relentle miracle, at every stage of their atomic thortage was in "trained selen- ting in an
og tiels, | effort
If so, a very grave slate To cool the Hanford plant is to blame as well as indus of shale partition off the.. under the general
of affairs is disclosed. Chad- uidance of Sir James
the Americans had virtually to try.
River For,, with the exception of ground 4,000 feet down in Columbla wiek. We even had Professor
the of But, instead
comparing drive
the Parliamentary and Selentl-Eastern Venezucia. Penny at the Los Alamos Russia with Britain, let us com- through it.
Lew laboratories, where the
actual pare Russia with America. The British, knowing all the fic Committee, there are
The gamble was to open bombs were constructed.
secrets and probably, even to- MPs who know or care about Moreover it was in this coun- Roughly four years before day more than the Russians solentific progress. The reason up new dollar-earning oil try-mainly at the Cavendish the first atomic bomb exploded have now been beaten by them. is that there are no votes in fields the size of Warwick Laboratory at Cambridge-that in New Mexico, the Americans There can be no escape from attention to such matters. most of the fundamental ro started work on a scale which thin ruthless self-indictment. search into atomic energy, was drew from Henry L. Stimson Still, there should bo.no room done. Little wonder, then, that War Secretary the comment, at this monent for despair. In our scientists did not
to belleve "The decision
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HE immediate lesson of the
"That brought the total cost of the venture up to £17,500,000.
In June 1940 news leaked out in the City. that oll was flowing through the 157-mile-long pipe- line. Shares rocketed to a new peak of 83s. 6d.
shire 100 miles south of Then the trouble started. Caracas, birthplace of Vene- Rumours went round that things zuela's national hero. Simon had gone wrong. Bolivar..
THE Jest on 10
A year ago dopper lawyer - chairman Sir Edwin Herbert told the need for an immense im It all began modestly enough ahareholders that Ultramare provement in applied science. In 1935 when a new British com- wells were producing less than
It will be helped if Parlia-pany, Ultramar, raised £350,000 half the oll expected. ment takes and is allowed to to look for of in Venezuela.
take a close Interest in scleń-
Sponsora
included Vincent
Today you will find it difficult
tific matters, as is done by the Charles filing, professor of oil to sell Ultramar shares at 8s. Od.. American Congress and Senate. technology at tho Imperial
But the ultimate lessons are College of Selence.
no less urgent and will require
greater sacrifice.
Many holders have lost seyen- eighths of their money on paper! What went wrong? Just that
to the earth accident Famous City houses put up bie flo The great hope of peace is a asums for exploration work. millions of years before the first
Commonwealth strong British. atrip-and Empire. Our dependence During the war Ultramar four
in
inod.
Ultramar's pro-
of
on America must be brought to another powerful friend. The Normally an oil well penetrates an end. We must obtain all the Texas Company of, Delaware into a single underground all. Bureaucrats
food that we need as soon as agreed to find funds. The public, lake. But, in vised a gadget to make the Washington were ordered possible from our own country too, Joined In.
perly, the lake is divided off by never-never system less painful.ourly this year, to reorganise and from the Empire. We. are
partitions Oscar Allen, going through with a new refrigerator, stove, their bureaus in order
numerous thin the to cut paying for
disgraceful Eagerly they applied for new shale. some old papers in the attic of or TV set, they install the down, the cost of government. neglect of the Commonwealth 10 shares at prices which The result is that 121 wells are his Nashville home, came across equivalent of a shilling-in-the-How much they succeeded in and Empire by the Tories in climbed steadily from 10s. until, now producing only unif the a 1778 leaso. It showed that slot meter. pan ancestor of his had sold the
chown in a Congress report. The the years between the two wars. In 1940, the company was able output expected from 80 a year.
But wo 'must make the to raise an extra £1,000,000 Street
reorganisation move has resulted The machine will not run une in 140 additional people being Labour Government
ago. and the hy issuing only 531,773 shares at for 89 years, on condition that less you put a coin into the slot taken on
Thoco extra 31 wells cost. Labour Party even more 72s. 6d.
than Ultramat money-more after that the land reverted to every 12 hours. And at tho his heirs. Allen, claiming to be end of every month the coins
Empire-minded than they Have A year later this Zalth seemed
could and,
The Texas Company have put Acest her, is planning to test are collected and taken of the JDE LOUIS vs he has nearly now become, and
total amount owing.
Anished writing a play for our great record of full employ-well justined. Vast underground.
up the extra. And, until Ultra- he hopes--Broadway.
ment and our fine spcial for areas were oll-bearing. vices we must work harder and DRITISH POUNDS s'ill cost WINTER PLANS to lurd more
Professor Illing's experts had mar can repay them more than Dfour dollars and three cents Y
wells and reckoned £1.000,000, they are. entitled customers to Miami, on TIE U.S. WANTS a state of even longer hours. Thit is the tested 33
best answer we can give to the that they would furn welfare instead of a welfare threat from the East.
out an to take a quarter of all oil won cach at the U.S." postal order America's Iliviera,
were on- counters: Reason: Post offices nounced recently. Among them · State,
overage, of 480 barrels of oil a without payment sald American Legion have not had word
day. --(London Express Servicej
London Express Borel) from is a new kind of night club en head George Craig.
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