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Thresholds of uncertainty : radiation and responsibility in the fallout controversy

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Jolly, J. Christopher

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The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...

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Dissertation

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Science, service, and specialized agriculture : the re-invention of the maraschino cherry

Creator:

Jolly, J. Christopher

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From 1925 to 1930, Ernest H. Wiegand, a professor of Horticultural Products at Oregon State Agricultural College, developed an improved brining process for cherries. Brined cherries are used in the production of maraschino and glacé cherries, which already had a sizable market in the United States by the 1920s. This...

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Masters Thesis

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. E. Fussell, Jethro lull: His Influence on Mechanized Agriculture (Reading, Berkshire: Osprey