Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Robert Fox Bacher (rhymes with rocker), 41, head of nuclear research at Cornell University, one of the scientists who assembled the first atomic bomb. Cool, deliberate, diplomatic, Bacher is regarded by his colleagues as one of the country's half-dozen leading nuclear physicists...
...United Nations Assembly meeting, where that line first appeared. On the Assembly's second day, small crowds gathered in the sun outside the Assembly Building. A woman kept talking wistfully of One World. Said a fat wise-guy with drowsily half-closed eyes: "Lady, with the atom bomb, the only world is the next world...
...heaviest losses in Europe's art museum had been architectural. Considering the hail of shot & shell, bomb and superbomb that pocked the face of Europe for six years, the treasures still surviving were a lot to be thankful for. But much of the best in Western civilization had been blown apart, and what was gone was irreplaceable...
...Atomic Age was going on four years old. Last week Major General Leslie R. Groves, military matrix of The Bomb, announced that the Atomic Age began officially on Dec. 2, 1942, when the first uranium pile started working under the west stands of the University of Chicago's football stadium. The Army's Manhattan Project, said the General, would observe Dec. 2 as "a milestone in the advancement of science." He did not guess how the rest of mankind would feel about...
Ever since he predicted that Boston and all other U.S. coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson's Reports, Inc.) and gratuitous adviser to the world, has been looking for a place to hide. Last week, in the heart of Kansas, he found it. In Eureka (pop. 3,803), Babson bought a dilapidated three-story Main Street building occupied by a beer tavern and roomers. He intends to construct vaults underneath it, deposit in them the voluminous records of his wealthy clients...