Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exploding a new magnesium bomb...
Pollster George Gallup reported last week that only 55% of the U.S. still thinks that development of the atomic bomb was a good idea (down from 69% in September 1945). But a growing majority is for keeping it handy just the same: 70% think the U.S. should continue manufacturing the A-bomb (compared...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
...many a stock shot. Its sentiments are eminently correct for the movies, with one exception. When the hero first meets the heroine and her mother, he goes briefly for the mother-but that angle could easily be cut out of the script. Love finally conquers all as The Bomb falls on Hiroshima. Running time: 90 minutes...
...situation, Dick Harlow and his coaches have polished the Crimson pass offense, which they hope to throw wide open today. Even without Jim Kenary, the Varsity can strike quickly and accurately through the air. Chuck Roche, Chip Gannen and Jim Noonan are expected to do most of the aerial bomb throwing this afternoon...