Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...under way -a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power. That was all he felt free to say at the time, and his statement left me puzzled. It was the first bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb." With the events of that first day whirling in his head, Truman finally returned to his family. That night, he reports: "I went to bed and to sleep...
...Wallace, and have a look at his grandson, Henry D. Wallace, nine months old. Wallace smiled proudly at little Henry, who regarded him gravely as news photographers' flash bulbs popped. Wallace told a Des Moines Rotary Club luncheon that President "Eisenhower's plan for mutual inspection of bomb installations in the U.S. and Russia is a practical first step toward making the world safe from one of its most explosive dangers," later added that he was through with politics. Hereafter he will just cultivate his garden (hybrid strawberries and gladioli...
...atomic bomb? It took a B-29 to carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently...
Eight-inch shells weigh about 240 Ibs.; so the bomb itself will not weigh more than that, and it may weigh much less since the casing may be lighter than the steel parts of the shell. A fighter-bomber could carry 16 such bombs, each powerful enough to knock the heart out of a good-sized city. A B-47 could carry 50 or more of them on a long flight, and distribute them over a large industrial complex. Atomic shells for 8-in. guns are apparently an accomplished fact, although none has been tested in actual artillery. Next step...
...Enemy? The book is full of comic businessmen, who are not only capitalist bloodsuckers, but suckers for the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. The saddest of them is a tycoon named Henry J. Baxter, who dies hilariously, falling down on the path to his $3,000,000 private bomb shelter because he just would not believe that the Russians developed the H-bomb for the benefit of mankind. Other characters in Fast's America are the clear-eyed, noble, tragic men who populate the bulging political prisons. If there is one thing Author Fast knows, it is where the grapes...