Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bombs for Everybody": "The U.N. felt it would be impolitic for a peace organization to recognize the [New York City air-raid] drill." Impolitic hell! If anyone should be drilling, it should be U.N.ers in their glass house. Can't you just see 5,000 ostriches with their necks buried in piles of glass, yelling: "This is impolitic!" There will be no diplomatic immunity if the bomb comes...
...Arthur S. Flemming said flatly in his quarterly report: "Soviet Russia is capable of delivering the most destructive weapon ever devised by man on chosen targets in the U.S." But Secretary of Defense Wilson, at his press conference, cast doubt on a suggestion that the Russians had a thermonuclear bomb "in droppable form." He added: "It may be that within a year they could drop a bomb, but they couldn't wage...
Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson assured the U.S. public that the Russians do not yet have a super-bomb-just a "thermonuclear device." But he later expressed his belief that war is inevitable, anyway. Said Peterson: "The weight of human nature and human experience runs contrary to the hope of a peaceful settlement...
...York's Representative W. Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, countered that, by his information, the Russians had a thermonuclear bomb all ready for delivery. Cole, a conservative Republican, believes that the alarming extent of Russian atomic power must now outweigh all considerations of balancing the budget. "I don't find it hard." said Cole, "to choose between financial ruination for my country and atomic devastation." His recommendation: $10 billion more a year for air defense...
...including the mailing of a million letters and the dispatch to radio executives of 3,000 vials of water from Florida's Fountain of Youth), NBC last week dropped a $5,000,000 blockbuster in the form of 28 new or revamped radio shows. The man tossing the bomb (target: public apathy about radio) is NBC's go-getting Vice President Ted Cott, 36, who arrived at the "Magic 28" after three weeks of all-out cerebration with his NBC associates...