Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crank Throws Bomb...
Barrack Talk. At 60 Ludwig Erhard's plump cheeks fairly glisten with the new German look of wellbeing. But nine years ago he was to be found, in frazzled pepper-and-salt suit and dirty shirt, in a little hole-in-the-wall office in flaking, bomb-scarred barracks near the imposing Frankfurt headquarters from which Allied commanders bossed the U.S. and British zones of occupied Germany. "There sat the economics adviser to the conquerors,'' recalls one caller, "almost like a dog on a chain.'' The professor was a torrential talker. To all comers...
...firing of Sputnik, have strengthened the Soviet Union's position in regard to the satellite nations, and the uncommitted areas of the world, she said. Lack of knowledge and of understanding of our problems, inter-service rivalries, and a "McCarthyist" idea that the secrets of the A-bomb could be "locked up" has lost this race for America, she charged. She also criticized our emphasis on "lethal weapons...
SAIGON, Oct. 22--Terrorist time bomb blasts injured 13 American servicemen and five Asians today while the city was playing host to a 21-nation conference on Asian...
...until World War II, the hard core of American science was to a large extent the individual scholar working alone and voluntarily sharing his work with like-minded people. But then came radar and the atomic bomb and the "need to do something about these quickly. The pace was speeded up, and every available young man was thrown into the effort. As many of these young men were not yet in a position to work freely on their own, and as much of the effort was of a military and secret nature, scientific tasks were divided up by the [scientific...