Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MacLennan and Glendinning took a container about as big as a grapefruit, filled it with fire-extinguishing fluid (carbon tetrachloride) and placed a small explosive charge inside. This "bomb" and a small pressure-sensitive switch to set it off were put in a fuel tank. Then the tank's dangerous vapors were ignited by an electric spark. In the first split second, the expanding pressure wave tripped the switch. The "bomb" burst, sprayed its contents into the tank and snuffed out the newborn explosion...
...with a few years of testing and improvement behind them, Inventors MacLennan and Glendinning are convinced that their "bomb" can be used in any industry where explosive dust or gas is a hazard. Veteran combat pilots who saw the "bombs" demonstrated at Farnborough, and who have seen exploding fuel tanks destroy a plane in a great puff of smoke and flame, had only one question: "When do we get them?" The British Ministry of Supply hopes to install the new extinguishers on British military planes within a year...
Bargaining Point. White with anger, Clement Attlee leaped to his feet in protest. "Be careful about this," he warned. "We agreed to the stationing of American bombers in this country . . . but never specifically as a base for using the atomic bomb against Russia." Churchill's retort: "That is the impression which, however mistakenly, they [the Americans] seem to have derived...
Whenever some special creative ability is vital to Russia, as in the fields of science and war, it is imported from the West. The Soviet Union is an avid subscriber to technical magazines the world over. Of the four Russian types of car, two are Packards. The atom bomb and the MIG fighter came from the West-if only from Eastern Germany...
...from peaceful Konrad Adenauer as, Baedeker in hand, he took the trail to the sights of London and Oxford.* In Westminster Abbey, Adenauer paused uneasily beside the tomb of Britain's Unknown Soldier, said nothing. At the British Museum he watched workmen repairing the great dome. "A German bomb hit us," explained a museum official. "We're still cleaning up." As Adenauer arrived at No. 10 Downing Street, left-wing pickets shouted: "Heil Hitler!" "No arms for Germans...