Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours-after Tibbets had been decorated for his deed-Hiroshima was covered with a giant, mushrooming cloud of smoke and dust. When reconnaissance photographs were at last obtained, they showed 4.1 square miles-60% of the city's built-up area-destroyed by fire and blast. There was no crater in which the blast effect would have been largely wasted; the bomb had exploded well above ground. How many tens of thousands of Hiroshima's people had perished was not yet and might never be known...
...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
Suddenly there was a tremendous sustained roar. In Albuquerque, 120 miles away, the sky blazed noonday-bright. The scientists close at hand looked up in time to see a huge, multicolored pillar of cloud surging up over 40,000 feet...
...nation's modern maritime operations in peacetime have been notably unsuccessful. High point was the days of the great clipper ships like the Flying Cloud (1850), when bold Yankees prowled the seas in bold vessels. But since then -with a few notable exceptions-U.S. ships' owners have been famed neither for energy nor enterprise. Over the whole, the U.S. Government has laid a heavy, bureaucratic and inexperienced hand...
Larry MacPhail, who is also a worrier, found it hard to take. Finally, as everyone felt sure he would, he emerged from his lowering cloud of silence and publicly castigated the Yankees. Along with some dark threats about overpaid players, he charged: "It is one thing to be beaten and quite another to be outhustled. . . . We must have more life, more pepper...