Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., April 17--Tritium, an ingredient of the fearsome H-bomb, offers new humanitarian aid as a sleuth in the quest for the cause of cancer...
...though, is world brotherhood. Finish the bomb tests or we'll all be finished. Leadership, peace. Down with fence-straddling. Down with wishy-Washingtonism...
...discontents and out-numbered conservatives had left early. Can't accomplish anything by singing about it. You can just confuse yourself. Solid citizens of the bourgeoisie singing union songs. Not even radical any more, just left-wing. Peace songs, brotherhood songs. Stop bomb tests? Hopeless idealism--may even be subversive. Can't stop them by singing anyway...
...secret intelligence reports from behind the lines as well as economic and political information that the staff of experts prepared from published material. The biggest problem OSS had to face was securing the most important information without angering army and navy intelligence men. Such information as the most important bombing targets ("We couldn't tell the Air Force what to bomb, but we could tell them what the relative importance of targets was") and what railroads needed attack was provided by the "cloak and dagger boys...
Chunking was his home for a good part of the war--Chunking, cut off from the world except by air, with its population combatting the difficulties of the Chinese war resistance and sweating out bomb raids in the crowded caves through 1942. Fairbank himself was beset with jaundice and dysentery, but says he was not in much danger of losing his life. "We ate better than the poor people," he reports, although stringy water buffalo meat and goat's milk doesn't sound too appetizing today. The group he was with lived