Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vincent observed that "the Communists like to bomb the islands for psychological purposes" and "Chiang Kai-shek likes to sit there and be bombed for psychological purposes. We are caught in a sort of psychological warfare at considerable cost to the inhabitants...
...tinkering never ceased. (In 1947 he even dashed off a note to Los Alamos suggesting how to build an H-bomb.) What he could not learn from encyclopedias Behlen picked up by sending postcards to big manufacturers to learn their methods-and most cooperated. Says he: "I never could have stayed in business without Thomas' Register of American Manufacturers...
...Panels of the metal proved so strong that buildings as wide as 120 ft. could be put up without frames or trusses. To demonstrate the strength of his first frameless building he hung tractors weighing 40 tons from the ceiling. (In 1955 one of the buildings survived an atomic bomb test in Nevada with only a dented roof, while two rival types were blasted to bits...
Preparations for the Penn varsity football game were interrupted by a bomb scare at Soldiers Field at 10 a.m. Saturday...
...receiving a telephone call from an unidentified person that a bomb had been planted in Soldiers Field Stadium, the Boston Fire and Police Departments rushed three fire engines and numerous police cars to the scene. However, a thorough search of the stadium failed to reveal any explosives...