Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as during any week since the end of World War II, the U.S. citizen had plenty to worry him: Russia, prices, the fear of a depression and the damned atom hung like grey fog just in back of his everyday thoughts. But when he got into his car and hit the highway on a warm spring day he felt no pain...
...Force's strategic bombing role. Flourishing figures from World War II, the Navy claimed that attack carriers were not only the best way of bringing air power to bear at sea; as a movable, hit-&-run base, the supercarrier would be able to launch a surprise attack with atom bombs against any target anywhere...
...puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During inauguration week, when he wore a white tie and tails for the first time in his life, he relaxed at a party by arguing at length with a friend that the atom bomb had made the tailcoat obsolete...
There was even $43 million in the bill for the Navy's controversial 65,000-ton, $189 million supercarrier, from which the Navy hopes to fly atom-carrying bombers in competition with the Army's B-36. And this week the keel was laid without ceremony at Newport News, Va. (One flying admiral put the case for the A-bomb carrier in horsy terms: "You don't ride your racehorse to the Kentucky Derby; you carry...
...askew. Hardly an automobile, truck or bus moved; the downtown streets of Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities were jammed with motionless cars and tens of thousands of people, who had spilled out of doorways, milled between the cars, gazing fearfully upward. Some of the frantic thought of an atom bomb...