Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BOMB "FALL-OUT": LESSON OF THE "DRAGON...
COLUMNISTS JOSEPH & STEWART ALSOP, long advocates of greater military preparedness for the U.S., discover the "fall-out"-a new byproduct of H-bomb warfare...
Germany's Lufthansa, commercial cousin of Hitler's Luftwaffe, will soon be air borne again. Last week in Cologne, its board of directors held their first postwar meeting in a bomb-battered building. Since the surrender of 1945, Germans have been forbidden to own or operate aircraft, but the ban will soon be lifted. Lufthansa's aircraft (four U.S. Convairs and four Constellations) are due for early delivery, its prewar chief of operations is back as manager, and the pilots are in harness again. Buttressed by government subsidies, Lufthansa's aircraft will soon be taking...
...every man ... to earn a livelihood . . ." Other churchmen, rallying round the eschatological view that sees the Christian hope at the end of the world and not in it, argued that Christianity's place was not primarily in political or ideological battles. Contemplating "the hydrogen and perhaps a cobalt bomb," Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of the U.S. Protestant Episcopal Church sounded a note of resignation. Said he at Minneapolis: "The possibility of the end of the world is not so tragic. Christians have always known that we are sojourners and pilgrims, and that we have here no continuing city...
...Winning? In Hiroshima, Japan, meanwhile, Christianity made another comment on the Bomb-by dedi cating the handsome new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption on the site where the old one stood before it was destroyed nine years ago by the first ABomb. Jesuit Father Hugo Lassalle (who himself survived the bombing) built this World Peace Memorial Church with contributions from Japanese converts plus a $100,000 anonymous contribution from the U.S. In this new church, standing at the birthplace of the atomic age. Christians of all denominations might find a symbol. Various Christian assemblies last week gave...