Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trimming its canvas to the gusty winds of Washington economies, the Navy re-rigged plans for its chain of Pacific bases...
...ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
Radiant Death. One of them, radioactive poisons, was mentioned briefly and guardedly in the Smyth Report. Wrote Professor Smyth: ". . . The fission products produced in one day's run of a 100,000 kw. chain-reacting pile might be sufficient to make a large area uninhabitable." The three plutonium piles at Richland, Wash. are enormously more powerful. If Professor Smyth's estimate was right, each pile has been producing, every day for more than a year, enough radioactive poisons to depopulate many "large areas...
...pestilence-spreaders would not use old, familiar diseases, but would create new ones by modifying standard bacteria or viruses. With modern knowledge of genetics and biochemistry, this should not be impossible. Human beings would have little natural resistance against such synthetic diseases, which might conceivably spread, in a biological chain reaction, through the world's entire population. Perhaps suitable diseases have already been created in several countries, their organisms kept alive in secret, guarded incubators...
...Escape? After explaining that escape was cut off, he asked the merchants to let sweet reason prevail. After all, the teamsters had already organized the big chain grocers. By staying open at all hours and paying less wages, the independents were undercutting. It was the union's bounden duty, said Cowboy Hoffa, to remedy this inequity. The union had suffered too: only 150 union men were hauling goods from wholesaler to retailer as compared to a prewar total of 550. Was this fair to the returned veteran? Finally Hoffa held out a handful of alfalfa. Store owners would...