Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With varying degrees of exasperation and bitterness, the Navy's angry men pounded away last week at an astonishing variety of targets-the atomic bomb, the Air Force, strategic bombing, the National Defense Department, the basic U.S. war plan. In the klieg-lighted clamor of the House Armed Services Committee room, officer after officer took the stand. Some fired off a few wild shots...
...Fatal." One of the wildest came from young (41) Commander Eugene Tatom. Trying to show that the expensive atomic bomb had to be dropped accurately to be effective, Commander Tatom told the astonished committeemen: "You could stand in the open at one end of the north-south runway at the Washington National Airport, with no more protection than the clothes you now have on, and have an atom bomb explode at the other end of the runway without serious injury...
...certainly have good evidence of a Soviet atomic explosion," Professor Schwinger said. "But," he added, "it's one thing for the Russians to create an explosion at a certain place, and it's another thing indeed for the Russians to package an atomic bomb and explode it any time they want...
Russia may know how to make an atom bomb, but she still may not know how to control it, Professor of Physics Julian S. Schwinger noted yesterday on his return from over a month's stay in Europe, where he attended the world's first international conference on nuclear physics...
...profit of $412,000 to raise cash to buy Chicago's Palmer House. But he never forgot his goal. Last week, Connie Hilton proudly announced that he had reached it. Both he and the Waldorf's stockholders had signed the deal, and barring "a fire, an atom bomb or a nuisance suit," the Waldorf would become No. 16 in the Hilton chain this week...