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...Atom? Last week in Washington hearings opened on the $100,000,000 Neely-Pepper bill, which would marshal "the best cancer brains in the world" for an all-out war on the disease, in the same way that the Manhattan Project conquered the atom. Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U.S. Public Health .Service told a jampacked opening-day audience that there are not enough properly trained cancer researchers as yet even to begin such a program. Why not, he asked, use the existing facilities and experience of the National Cancer Institute as a nucleus for the research organization...
...medical and scientific experts agreed with him. Dr. Howard J. Curtis of Columbia University, one of the foremost researchers on the atom bomb, thought that an entirely new government agency should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill...
...half-page ad in the Wellesley, Mass. Townsman, Roger Babson, noted for his goatee and his dire predictions, said: "Boston will be destroyed by the atom bomb. . . .The United Nations has not the power to prevent such until it is made over into a real World Government . . . we know that the American people will never vote to do so until . . . after our large coastal cities have been ruined...
Some Swedes dreamed of organizing an atomic cooperative among the Scandinavian countries. Sweden had uranium. Norway had heavy water and abundant electric energy. Denmark had Nobel Prizewinner Nils Bohr, one of the greatest living atom experts. Bohr had worked with the Manhattan Project, and no doubt knew many of its secrets. Swedish scientists stated emphatically that they were not interested in atomic bombs. Besides advancing pure science, they were aiming at industrial, technical, and medical uses of atomic energy...
...staid Brahmin matron squatting for a running start across the Square touches sympathetic notes among the local sidewalk gentry. Professor William Yandell Elliott's prewar guess that no battle could be quite so dangerous as crossing Harvard Square during rush hour did not consider the possibilities of the Atom Bomb, but the analogy is still too close for comfort...