Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between World Wars, Strauss prospered in the Wall Street investment banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Named an AECommissioner by Harry Truman in 1946 after serving as a deskbound rear admiral in World War II, he won a reputation for independent hardheadedness by pushing for an H-bomb program in 1949 against the combined opposition of his fellow AECommissioners and the physicists of the General Advisory Committee. Strauss won that bitter fight (with invaluable help from Physicist Edward Teller) just in time to keep the Soviet Union from gaining an H-bomb monopoly. After 1953, as Eisenhower's AEChairman...
...curfew was eased. In a sense, U.S. troops sneaked out of town-but for a good reason. The embarkation timetable was deliberately kept secret in memory of the way Arab nationalist bravos in Egypt, when the withdrawing Anglo-French forces were reduced to a rearguard, began sniping and bomb-throwing and shouting about "throwing the invaders into the sea." There was no other reason for U.S. troops to sneak away; brought in to stabilize a confused and desperate situation, provided with no clear directive on landing, and frequently under provocation from excitable rebels, they had kept order-and had done...
...Bomb Plan. During the war Behlen noticed that rubber conveyor rollers for mechanical corn huskers were unavailable. He devised a substitute from old auto tires-and in 1944 netted $40,000. The next year Nebraska was soaked by rain, and farmers needed dryers for their piled corn. Behlen designed long pipes that could be thrust into the corn, hooked up hot-air fans to blow through them. Farmers snapped up the simple dryer,* and such other Behlen inventions as auxiliary gears to make old tractors go faster...
...average of 30-fold, and in some samples more than 100-fold. As expected, teas from South America and Africa show the least increase (the whole Southern Hemisphere has markedly less fallout than the Northern). Teas from China, Formosa and Japan may easily reflect mainly the fallout from Soviet bomb tests. Those from India and Ceylon can apparently only reflect the pooled fallout from Siberia, the Pacific islands and Nevada, which has gone around the world. Two reasons for tea's high count: the plant takes up minerals from the soil with great avidity, and the leaves...
...embarrassment. It should have been a great week, with no fewer than eight "specials" scheduled, costing a total of $1,500,000. Yet most of them were disappointing. On CBS, the musical version of Little Women was a dreary mistake; the miracle of Bernadette was a sugar-coated bomb. Even with French Clown Fernandel to help him, NBC's Bob Hope was merely routine; the mute, moving eloquence of Julie Harris in Johnny Belinda was all that was meaningful in a moldy melodrama. Ginger Rogers in her own special was fine when she danced, but she did not dance...