Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawing of its new supercarrier. Unnamed as yet, the CVA-58 will cost an estimated $124 million. Though the money is still to be appropriated, the Navy has scraped together enough to start laying its keel by early 1949. From its decks, the Navy claimed, planes carrying the atomic bomb will be able to reach and bomb 92% of all possible targets anywhere in the world...
...cruisers for antiaircraft and surface support and at least two smaller carriers to carry fighter planes. The CVA-58 will probably carry about the equivalent of an Air Force bomber group, of which the Air Force has 16. One spread of torpedoes or a near-miss from an atomic bomb would put it out of action...
Looking this over, I see that most of the words are "Boudrean." So maybe we've just going to have him with us wherever we go instead of Ted Williams. It isn't that I'd mind not knowing if an atom bomb hit New York. It isn't that Boudrean and the rest aren't all fine men, examples to American youth, and true to the game from the word go. It's just that a fellow likes to be alone sometimes...
...intelligence services of Western nations were certain that Russia, although it had the larger ground force, would be militarily much weaker than an armed U.S. The Russians have not got the atomic bomb. The Russian economic machine has made no recent important strides on the very long way it would have to go to approach equality with the U.S. Nevertheless, Russia s defensive capacity is impressive. If attacked, Russia would defend itself stubbornly...
...outside the Concentration Camp was former Foreign Minister U Tin Tut. He resigned from the government to head a loyal "Burmese Auxiliary Force" to fight the rebels.* One day last month, as he started to drive away from the office of the English-language New Times of Burma, a bomb planted in his car blew it to pieces. Tin Tut died two days later (TIME, Sept...