Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...municipal parking wharf at the foot of Wood Street, a spark flew wild from a welding torch being used to repair a section of loose railing. Within a few seconds, the Island Queen's fuel tanks went up in two explosions so violent that frightened Pittsburghers cried, "Atom bomb!" Fire swept her decks. No passengers were aboard and many of the boat's 96 crew members, concessionaires and musicians were shopping ashore, but the toll was high: 19 dead, 17 injured...
Usually it is "recessive." The altered recessive gene lurks in the germ plasm for generations, like an infinitesimal time bomb, waiting to combine with a similar gene in a cell of the opposite sex. Then, reinforced, it makes its influence felt. Theoretically, a mutation may be beneficial, but most of them are not. Some mutations kill the developing embryo. Some deform or otherwise handicap the young organism...
Delayed Peril. Dr. Muller has often said that physicians should go easy with X rays, to avoid "genetic deaths." Far more dangerous, obviously, is the use of atomic energy, which gives off floods of X rays (gamma rays). "When an atomic bomb . . . kills 100,000 people directly," Dr. Muller says, "enough mutations may have been implanted in the survivors . . . to cause at least as many genetic deaths . . . dispersed throughout the population over . . . thousands of years...
...German atomic project was never very large. Heisenberg estimates that it cost only about 1/1000th of what the U.S. spent ($2 billion) on The Bomb. Anyhow, top Nazis were never completely sold on the idea. Says Heisenberg: "The undertaking [of making an atomic bomb] could not even be initiated against the psychological background of the men responsible for German war policy. These men expected an early decision of the war, even in 1942, and any major project which did not promise quick returns was specifically forbidden...
...French and all other designers guard their new styles from each other like atomic-bomb secrets (no customers can get into Sophie's salon unless they have been "introduced" and she is sure they aren't there to crib her ideas). But after their showings they are glad to have American style-cribbers buy them to copy; it is a large part of their business. Sophie was returning from such a Paris mission in 1931, when, on the last day out, Adam called her by ship-to-shore phone from New York: "Hold your breath...