The Girls of Atomic City (59 page)

search for workers for,
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secrecy surrounding,
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secret of work revealed,
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security measures and,
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selection of location,
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size of,
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speculations on purpose of,
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Stimson’s tour of,
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Townsite,
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Townsite

training at,
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Tubealloy in,
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Tubealloy

unions and,
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victory in Europe and,
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War Department letter to workers at,
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women’s importance to,
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X-10 plant,
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construction of,
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name of,
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as scientific research facility,
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Y-12 plant,
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accident at,
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adding machines at,
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basketball team of,
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calutron cubicle operators at,
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clerks at,
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closing of,
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codes used at,
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construction of,
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cost of,
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electromagnetic separation process at,
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name of,
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scale of operations at,
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Clinton Engineer Works housing,
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black cafeteria and,
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for black residents,
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dissatisfaction with,
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East Village,
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Happy Valley trailer encampment,
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amusement fairway at,
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laundry in,
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shopping in,
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streetlights in,
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telephones in,
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water supply in,
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hutments,
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number of residents of,
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plans for Negro Village,
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Victory cottages,
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women’s dormitories,
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Code of Wartime Practices for American Broadcasters,
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Cohn, Waldo,
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Cold War,
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College Women’s Club,
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Coleman, Charles,
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Coleman, Virginia Spivey,
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arrival at CEW,
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as chemist,
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clearance for,
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at college,
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family of,
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journey to CEW,
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marriage of,
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as Piper’s assistant,
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promotion withheld from,
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recruited for CEW job,
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as teacher,
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Colored Camp Council,
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Colored Employees of Roane-Anderson Company,
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Columbia University,
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Communism,
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Compton, Arthur (“Arthur Holly”; “Holly Compton”; “Comus”),
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and decision to use atomic bomb on Japan,
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first self-sustaining nuclear reaction experiment and,
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Conant, James,
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Congress,
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Connelly, Matthew,
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Coobs, Betty,
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cookbooks,
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Cooper, Prentice,
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Corps of Engineers Land Acquisition Section,
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Crenshaw, Lieutenant Colonel,
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crime,
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Dale, Peter,
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dances,
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Del Genio, Nick,
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