Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil. It is ludicrous so to educate a generation born to the OGPU and the atomic bomb. Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage...
...whose district was consolidated five months ago with that of Republican Congressman W. Sterling Cole, was the offender. In campaigning against Cole for survival in Congress, Campaigner Hall, the Binghamton Press reported, made the charge: "I see that my opponent is going to Nevada, ostensibly to witness an atom-bomb explosion. Well, it will probably be another elbow-tipping party . . . When they get these Congressmen a little tipsy, are they spilling out secrets that are going into Russian hands...
...Policy (the Finletter Board) had aptly entitled its 1947 report Survival in the Air Age, and recommended a fast buildup to 70 groups by 1952, on the assumption that it would take the Russians until 1952 to get the atomic bomb. The 80th Congress, which Harry Truman still denounces, overwhelmingly approved the 70 group program. But in early 1948, over the protests of Spaatz and then-Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington, the President of the U.S. announced: "The Air Force needs 48 groups, not 70." The following year he impounded a special $615 million Air Force appropriation voted...
Died. Howard W. Blakeslee, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning science editor (since 1928) of the Associated Press; ten days after he covered the atom bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nev.; of a coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...