Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Support of Dulles' move to speed up committee action drew praise from ex-Governor Paul A. Dever. He said yesterday that an FBI probe is unnecessary since Conant, "having been so intimately connected with the development of the atomic bomb has already been more than adequately subjected to a test of his loyalty. Because of this, I see no reason for a delay of his confirmation...
...mayor spoke the truth: there were no arms hidden in Oradour. But the SS herded the men into six large barns on the outskirts of Oradour and drove the women & children into the church. A large smoke bomb was exploded inside the church and, as the women & children panicked, the SS men mowed them down with machine guns. The explosion of the smoke bomb was the signal for the soldiers stationed outside the barns to fire point blank into the massed groups of men. The soldiers then walked in among the fallen bodies, firing with their pistols on any that...
America would not have developed the atomic bomb or radar if the current government recreations on visas for foreign students had been in effect in 1942, the Dean of the Division of Applied Science School told a meeting of the American Physical Society yesterday afternoon in Sanders Theatre...
...dome is as big as one likes, made up of small spherical triangles pinned together. In appropriate sizes, it can be made to shelter anything from newlyweds to a railway terminal with less weight and hence less cost, and, Bucky hopes, be more resistant to hurricanes or atomic-bomb blasts than conventional design's. "It would be a good moon structure too," said a Fuller enthusiast...
When the Nazis were about to draft young Paul into a labor corps (rebuilding bomb-prone factories), Skoda assured the head of Vienna's Academy of Music that a (fictitious) letter of recommendation was coming "any day" from Hermann Goring; Paul was accepted by the academy. Before the next summons came, Paul was already lodged with a friendly farmworkers' corps near Vienna; he did most of his digging in the scores of Mozart and Beethoven. He gave his first recital in Vienna four years ago, then gradually began to make his name as a soloist and chamber musician...