Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing Aft. Few men had seen more Pacific fighting than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...Canada," said Dr. Mackenzie, "is not interested in building bombs. We have never known anything about the construction of bombs. . . . We do not have the industrial capacity to make bombs in great numbers, and no country can think of building a weapon of which it will have only one or two. Could we go to war with a single atom bomb...
Even so, Dr. Mackenzie's revelation meant that the U.S. was no longer the only nation in the world to possess the wherewithal for making The Bomb. And the problems of eventual international control were growing while the Security Council talked. Trib Correspondent Peter Kihss reported that at least eight other nations have Government-sponsored programs of some significance, and that at least 14 more have already produced or located the vital raw materials...
...making a belligerent defense. The prosecution contended that he had forged the Hindenburg will which aided Hitler's accession to power; Papen hotly denied it, later broke down and wept because "nobody would believe him." His prospects of acquittal were not noticeably brightened when a sympathizer's bomb exploded harmlessly in the office of the court's president, Camil Sachs...
...leaving his office in downtown Mexico City): "I don't even know how much money my wife has because I have my dignity." Asked if he would continue his trip to Rome, he replied ruefully: "Only if President Truman will lend me the protection of the atomic bomb." Nevertheless, at week's end, the Vélezes zoomed...