Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffered at the hands of Lewis and the brotherhoods' Alexander Whitney and Alvanley Johnston. The nation's economy could not stand many more such paralyzing strikes. Harry Truman and Congress had let things drift so far that there was nothing to do but drop a legislative atomic bomb...
During a routine House debate on naval appropriations last week, Representative Albert Thomas opened his mouth a millimeter too wide. Out popped a shocker. Said Thomas: "We have something far more deadly than the atomic bomb. We have it today-not tomorrow-and furthermore, it's in usable shape." Then Representative Harry Sheppard, chairman of the Naval Appropriations subcommittee, let out more...
...officials share the world's growing belief that one restraint on Soviet power politics is the fact that the U.S., for all her fading force and domestic distraction, still has The Bomb. With that in mind, U.S. policy-makers last week gave Bernard Baruch a clear directive on the course to take as U.S. member of the atomic commission. If Russia really cooperates in U.N. and the peace, the U.S. will gradually turn her atomic secrets and know-how over to international control. If Russia stalls, the U.S. will stall in the commission-and keep right on making bombs...
...very much interested in science these days. Its latest interest is cosmic rays. One reason: the rocket weapons of World War III may shoot through empty space above the atmosphere, where cosmic rays are loose. Another: cosmic rays may some day supply the key to a "super" atomic bomb, which will make the plutonium efforts look like firecrackers...
Operation Crossroads (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Albert Einstein, Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Harold Ickes, Gen. George C. Kenney and many others review the atomic bomb and its effect on U.S. thinking...