Word: a-bomb
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This makes for increasingly hard choices in the Kremlin. The Russians can strike now, overrun Europe and Asia, and see their own cities destroyed by A-bombs. Or they can build toward effective A-bomb equality while the free world builds the defenses of Europe and Asia...
...supply of wool clothing, blankets and sweaters. San Francisco's huge Emporium is bulging with all the things that are expected to become hard to get-furniture, woolens, metal goods, etc. Said a New York liquor dealer: "There's so much whisky stacked on Manhattan that an A-bomb blast would plaster half of Philadelphia...
...anyone could do the job, it could be done by Executive Vice President Charles Allen Thomas, 51. A brilliant scientist (D.Sc., M.I.T. '33), Thomas had helped develop no-knock ethyl gasoline, was awarded the civilian Medal for Merit for his work as project director of the Oak Ridge A-bomb plant during World War II, is now boss of several AEC projects being carried out by Monsanto. Thomas is confident that private industry can develop atomic power more cheaply than the Government. Said he: "It will serve the additional purpose of giving the country a check on what bureaucracy...
...Hollywood starlets, gift-laden advertisers and proud neighbors, and out into the bright glare of television lamps and popping flashbulbs. There she smiled winningly at the camera and scooped up a shovelful of light, sandy earth. The occasion: the groundbreaking, Hollywood-style, for Mrs. Ruth Colhoun's private A-bomb shelter...
...Colhoun, a divorcee with three children, was afraid, like many others on the West Coast, that an A-bomb attack would catch her napping. In hundreds of California backyards, sweating husbands and excited children were blistering their hands and straining their backs burrowing into the ground. Overnight, dozens of new construction firms appeared, offering everything from $13.50 foxhole shelters to luxurious $5,500 suites equipped with telephone, escape hatches, bunks, toilets and a Geiger counter. City switchboards were flooded with calls asking for shelter specifications. Newspaper ads exhorted home owners to buy "Life Safes . . . protection for you and your family...