Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant's work as wartime chairman of the national Defense Research Committee, and his assistance in the development of the atomic bomb, may be responsible for his esteem by the nation, the magazine reported. His recent travels and numerous speeches, given play in most of the country's large papers, have also helped put him in the public eye, Look stated...
...Peace?" Two years ago at Stockholm the Peace Partisans launched their great petition campaign. It was called the World Peace Appeal but it said nothing about peace. It did not condemn aggression. Those who bothered to read it found that it merely demanded the unconditional prohibition of the atomic bomb-the one counterweight to the vast Red Army
...more than a month, Paris nights had been disturbed by mysterious bomb blasts, five of them directed against Communist bookstores and propaganda headquarters. Last week the bomb-throwers blasted the front door and grillwork of the Banque Commerciale pour l'Europe du Nord, used by Moscow for its financial transactions with France, and a known reservoir for Communist Party funds...
...night after the bombing of the Red bank, Parisians in the neighborhood were startled from their beds by another explosion which battered the first floor of Worms and Co., a hundred-year-old banking house, and blew out display windows across the street at the Printemps department store. "Someone has made a mistake," fretted a director of the Worms bank. "We have no political affiliations and certainly none with the Communist Party." Reinforced police patrols prowled Paris' financial district, watching for further bomb-throwers...
...like from a plane. On contact with the water, it inflates itself, starts its own outboard motor, can then be guided by radio beam from the mother plane to floating survivors. Now Douglas engineers are working on a brand-new project. Douglas Engineer Ed Heinemann, who thinks the aircraft bomb is the one piece of equipment which hasn't kept pace with aviation's modernization, is working on a new design. Says he: "Putting these potbellied bombs on the sleekest fighter is like using a Cadillac to haul coal...