Word: 29s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were few doubts as to what that policy would be. Among its pointedly implied recommendations: ¶ The abandonment of the present U.S. military program, which embraces the manufacture of B-29s, B-36s, $13 billion for the War and Navy Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system...
...brought disaster to Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
Boeing Aircraft Co., which made the war's biggest planes, also suffered one of its biggest ironies. Although its B-29s and B-17s carried the bulk of U.S. bombardment power, Boeing was hit harder by victory than any other plane maker. Within weeks after war's end, contract cancellations forced it to close its Seattle plant. Hope seemed to be grounded...
General Arnold treats this subject in more detail. If supplied from the first with atomic bombs, he believes, the B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force could have accomplished all they did in Japan in a single day's raid. The cost, for bombs a measly $200,000,000. "Destruction by air power," says General Arnold, "has become too cheap and easy. . . . The existence of civilization [is] subject to the good will and good sense of the men who control air power...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...