Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Truman got ready to offer the world's scientists free access to an atomic byproduct-the radioisotopes produced in Oak Ridge's atomic piles, generally considered the most important aid to medical research since the invention of the microscope...
...hearing was getting considerably out of hand, and Ferguson was looking hard for some way to get it back on the track. At one point, exasperated by Hughes's free-swinging charges, he lectured the witness: "If you believe that because of your great wealth and access to certain channels of publicity you can take control over the committee, you are mistaken. ... It is apparent that you are trying to discredit one member . . . but your prime motive is to discredit the entire committee." Angrily, Ferguson added that there would be no more "side issues." By the end of that...
...meet Communist propaganda, why didn't it kick out the Communists on its own payroll? One of the members read off a list of Department employees who were under direct FBI suspicion, but who had not yet been fired. They brought up the name of a secretary with access to confidential memoranda, who had been hobnobbing with local Reds and the Soviet Embassy staff for months. State's only action, they said, had been to call in the secretary, ask her if she was a Communist and accept her denial...
...that the U.S. Government ought to know what they were thinking, so they wrote it all down in a 40,000-word paper. That was early in 1942; the authors were subsequently hired by the Government's ultra-secret biological warfare section. Even though it was written without access to Washington's secret information, the paper looked like much too thorough an estimate of the possibilities of bacterial warfare for general circulation in wartime...
Historian Langer has had access to such a wealth of unpublished material (State Department dispatches, OSS files, letters by Roosevelt, Hull, ex-Ambassador Leahy, et al.) that his book is of first importance in its field, even for those who do not share his outspoken conclusions...