Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific knowledge and the technical procedure," but not the industrial capacity, to build the atomic bomb. (This testimony came from Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal, who said he was quoting Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board. When Russia would have the capacity, Forrestal was not prepared...
Died. George Noble, Count Plunkett, 96, Irish literary and art patron, and fiery fighter for a free Eire; in Dublin. The bush-bearded, pouch-eyed papal count, first Sinn Fein candidate to be elected to the Irish Parliament (in 1917), served the new republic as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1919-21) and Fine Arts...
...Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research & Development Board, and some other top brass, seconded his motion. But newsmen were not so sure that even "voluntary censorship" was needed. Forrestal conceded that there have been only two major leaks since war's end. (One was Aviation Week's story on supersonic flight; the other, a Denver Post article on the disposal of atomic rubbish.) And many a paper feared that voluntary censorship would be an entering wedge. The answer, newsmen felt, is not voluntary censorship but a tightening up of Government organizations to make sure that secrets...
...week's end, there were plenty of facts to fill in the story. The planes, surplus Consolidated PB4Ys (the Navy's version of the B-24), had been bought from the War Assets Administration without armament. They had been flown from Bush Field, Ga., by five U.S. airmen, all of whom were turned over to the U.S. Embassy in Managua. Four were deported to New Orleans, arrested, and charged with violating the U.S. Neutrality Act. A fifth, an AWOL air force captain, was handed over to military authorities in Panama...
...Bush said that such a trend now exists in American business and added that "at every hand throughout the world, opportunities-nay necessities of the most urgent order-call for its ministration...