Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...events of deepest portent reverberated in the news. One was the still undigested fact of Russia's atomic bomb. The other was the shutdown in coal and steel, foundations of the nation's industry and its economic wellbeing. But the U.S., which had often been accused of reacting too violently to disturbing news, seemed to be accepting both events with almost studied indifference...
Washington was as calm and unhurried as if neither had happened. The White House had announced its intention of letting labor and management sweat it out; few Congressmen even raised their voices on the subject of the Russian bomb...
...result of the disclosure of the Soviet atomic bomb, Meyer said, we must expect increased appropriations for the Atomic Energy Commission, a long range air force, a radar defense network, and the fortification of Alaska...
...tail of the announcement of the Russian bomb, the Harvard branch of the American Veterans Committee and the World Federalists tonight bring Cord Meyer Jr. to Harvard to examine the "Consequences of Soviet Atom Bomb Production...
...certainly called for,--to the university, to Shortliffe, and to the public,; for all the evidence seems to show that the exclusion order was issued because of the professor's political beliefs-- not because he would be a threat to the country as a gangster or dope peddler or bomb thrower would...