Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parachute of 1918 seems a not-too-distant cousin of the experimental "Hoppicopter" of today. In 1907 they were teaching the home carpenter how to build an underground clubhouse. Today the structure is more elaborate and has been renamed. The last item in the book is a basement A-bomb shelter for private homes...
Among other things, he accuses President Conant of being a "33rd degree masonic brute," for having anything to do with the atomic bomb. He claims that Conant once said at a private party that the United States should have dropped ten atomic bombs on Japan "to make a more interesting experiment...
...bomb the MIGs' Manchurian bases and prevent the buildup-as General Douglas MacArthur had suggested? Vandenberg had given a startling answer at the MacArthur hearings last spring. The answer: the U.S. did not have enough planes to bomb Manchurian bases and still keep its strategic striking force intact to deliver the atomic bomb-"the sole deterrent to war up to this time"; U.S. industry was not producing enough bombers to replace losses in such a bombing campaign...
...Communists did their best to exploit the disaster. First they spread the rumor that U.S. A-bomb experiments had caused all the rainfall and the flood. A surprising number of Italians seemed to believe such nonsense. Not missing a trick, the Communists then demanded that the Rome government divert arms appropriations to flood relief...
...Haven played the part of host as well as it could. The bars were crowded streets Jammed and hotels packed. At the game some funnymen pulled off a long, mysterious stunt between halves, a blue smoke bomb from the Eli stands annoyed many, and the Band's "Substitutions Unlimited" pleased even more...