Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman reported civilian production now at a record rate of $225,000,000,000 a year and civilian employment at an all-time peak of more than...
Comparisons cannot be made with civilian holdings of war bonds, Goodwin asserted, citing postwar surveys showed surprisingly reduced quantities still held...
...until a year later, after the civilian Atomic Energy Commission had taken the plant over from the Army, did anyone notice that the material was missing. On April 30, AEC notified...
...Archerfish's skipper, Commander Joseph F. Enright, let go with a spread of torpedoes, and then "took her down." He heard one torpedo explode. Not until after the war did the U.S. know what had happened after that. The Japanese civilian workers had lost their heads. No one thought to shut the water-tight doors. Slowly, water welled into the Shinano. Six hours later, her Japanese skipper tucked a portrait of Emperor Hirohito under his arm, scrambled over the side and left the biggest carrier ever built to sink ignominiously, the victim of one torpedo...
...files. Statements issued late by Senators Hickenlooper and McMahon indicate that the Sun, foe one reason or another, had printed erroneous facts leading to an equally erroneous conclusion. Whereas the Sun reported that secret data was removed from files at Oak Ridge after they had been entrusted to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission, the truth seems to be that the papers were lifted from Los Alamos by Army personnel at a time when the Army was in full control of security measures...