Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further research stepped up the efficiency of electronic detection, and Air Force engineers learned to cut arctic construction time by prefabrication and preassembly techniques, cost estimates for the DEW line dropped to about $250 million. After the Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb and displayed a 600-m.p.h. long-range jet bomber last year, the U.S. and Canada decided to go ahead with DEW. Equipment too bulky to fly will move in by sea convoy during the brief shipping season...
...After exposing 42 common drugs to blast and radiation during the 1953 Nevada A-bomb tests, the Food & Drug Administration released its findings: all the drugs were unharmed except two-insulin suffered a 10% loss of potency. Vitamin B a loss of 50%. Added the FDA: any drug found in an undamaged container, 1,000 yards or more from ground zero, can be considered safe for immediate...
...Monday. Clinton Locy called it quits. He had made his way through all the Old Testament and most of the New, sung some hymns, lectured on the Holy Land, and delivered some reflections on the atom bomb. "If anyone had sat through the entire sermon," he said, "they would have heard as much Gospel as they'd get in a year at church...
...Bomb Site. Four days later, police got more evidence. An ex-convict, Andrew Nelson, told them he had bought a case of dynamite with Washburn five days before the bombing. Washburn, Nelson said, had set off a practice bomb in the woods by attaching wires to the dynamite from the generator of his car. When the police checked the bomb test site, they found blasted trees. They also found matching wire in the woods and in Washburn's house. Washburn said he was in Houston the night before the murder and could not have planted the bomb. But through...
...Angelo. Texas (pop. 52,000), the murder was the biggest news in years. Wealthy Helen Harris Weaver. 51. wife of a prominent local architect, had tried to start up her Chevrolet one morning last month and been killed by a bomb planted under the hood and hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas...