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Lawrence Berketey Laboratory
Archives and Records Office
Records Series Tile 5
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ones Chackground noise, pause) Well, I went back
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into the laboratory in October, 194227 na there were
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And they
were used to working with trace minerals and elements.
But they wouldn't work on anything unless it was a white
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vrowghe something inSraripping of blood, én they would
say, "Don't bring it here.
a white ash."
Take it away and make it into
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Latae?ay friend Overstreet diedfnot too long agogyof cancer.
adrhe was a chain smoker, and he had cancer of the lung.
How did they come. to be at Crocker Lab?
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Joe Hamilton hired them, found them as part of our group.
What was your
job during the war?
I was the major flunky and tracer man.
I was surprised
to find out that notone knew how to do a decent tracer
study when I came back on the Lab.
Including Hamiiton?
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Including Hamilton. .He knew how to do it, but he didn't
have the patience for that, measuring
and so forth.
So I aet up all the tracer studies and directed them.
I finally wound up with a staff of about 14 girls, and
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weshad-our ine-and-outs as all personalities will.
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