Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby bomb was parachuted out of a B-36, exploded at 30,000 ft. amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...
...moved bag and baggage into the Prime Minister's residence. Legally he has only a three weeks' lease on 10 Downing Street, but he is counting heavily on a five-year renewal at the general election, May 26. On their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
...Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli (pronounced jeel-yee), 65, returned for his first U.S. appearances in 16 years, and presumably his last. This week he sang the third of three Manhattan farewell recitals. The instant his heavily paunched figure moved from the wings, the crowd turned on the applause full blast. The tenor bowed, leaned firmly on the piano, spread his feet and bent forward from the waist as if to bounce his voice off the stage...
...Bomb & Blast. Einstein was both a pacifist and a Zionist (in 1952 he was asked, but refused, to become the President of Israel). But as the Nazis destroyed the Jewish people, he made a decision that was to produce war's most destructive tool. One day in 1939, Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt. Nazi scientists, he said, might soon be able "to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium." "This requires action," F.D.R. said. Out of it came the Manhattan Project, and at last the atomic bomb...
...only in civil-defense manuals-the plan for mutual aid between communities. Several U.S. cities have had major "disaster" workouts (Chicago in 1952 assumed 100,000 casualties, 20,000 dead), but have counted on their own medical facilities. In the Beaumont test, the presumption was that a refinery blast had caused 250 casualties* and knocked out local medical aid. It was up to Houston, 90 miles away, to give succor...