Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barriers in the Allies' dismantling policy, lack of manpower and the inroads of foreign mass production were new handicaps to the craftsmen of Solingen. But inch by inch Solingen fought its way back, and the steelmakers never forgot their faithful customers, many of them barbers who would not attack their customers' whiskers with anything but a Solingen razor...
...barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships-carriers as well as battleships-are over...
Died. Russell Weisman, 59, self-styled "renegade Democrat" who opposed the New Deal through a double career as professor of economics at Western Reserve University and as daily columnist and editorial writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ. 273,914); after a heart attack; in Cleveland...
Died. Clyde Martin Reed, 78, onetime Kansas governor (1929-31), Republican Senator from Kansas since 1939; of a heart attack and a fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted...
...Other Man. In Manhattan, Motorist Paul Moore admitted in court that in 20 years of driving he had never had a license, but that he "did have an attack of conscience the other day and applied...