Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first ($3,000) prize in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine annual story contest. Heard's plot: What would happen if the icecaps completely melted? The year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth's icecaps with atomic energy. The water released will raise the level of the sea, flooding most of the earth except the Central Asian plateau, Yang's stronghold...
...policy of continuous aid to the Gimo's Government on the condition of continued reform such as has been evident in the past year." If the U.S. did not make up its mind soon, doubt about eventual U.S. aid would encourage the Chinese Communists in their efforts to destroy the Chinese Government's currency by continuing the civil...
...almost as hard to destroy ration coupons as to get them...
Amid these grim prospects, Soviet newspapers last week carried a brief item that, to Soviet readers, made the Amerikanskis look crazy as ever: the U.S. Government authorized farmers to destroy 20,000,000 bushels of low-grade potatoes, which Uncle Sam had paid for; the potatoes were deteriorating too fast to be collected, sold, or shipped to foreign folk...
...United Nations; but for the next few years the U.N. will be playing Goldilocks in a small corner of the stage while the three bears gambol madly in front of the footlights. If the jealous stars should allow their misunderstandings to lead to open violence, their fury would destroy the stage, theater, and all, and little Goldilocks would never have a chance to strut her stuff...