Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ABOVE TYPES OF AIRPLANES WERE BUILT TO FLY AND NOT TO SCRAP. THEY HAVE YEARS OF SERVICE IN THEM AND IT IS A CRIME TO DESTROY ANY AIRPLANE THAT CAN POSSIBLY BE USED. RETURNING VETERANS AND FLYING ENTHUSIASTS SHOULD BE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY THESE AIRPLANES AT NOMINAL PRICES. ALL THE ABOVE AIRPLANES ARE OF A TYPE THAT WILL NOT BE COMPETITIVE WITH NEW TYPES...
...lead was management's because "management is in charge . . . management must manage." But labor would have to be a full partner. "We do not want to destroy the unions. . . . We want to strengthen their leadership. . . . [But] union leaders enjoy a social power of enormous proportions. They must accept the social obligations that go with...
...camps, CWS prepared a toxoid against botulism, a form of food poisoning which it was feared the Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...
...days later, on a rainy afternoon, Bill Green visited the White House, came out carrying an umbrella and feeling somewhat appeased: "I disagree with Mr. Murray . . . that the President is seeking to destroy unions. I don't feel that he is trying to do that." The President had told him, he reported, that the plan was designed to avoid really "vicious" anti-labor laws. But Bill Green, though mollified, was still dead-set against fact-finding boards and cooling-off periods...
...atom bomb had been dropped. The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima had blown apart man's conscience and his sense of civilized security. For the first time in history man, who still could not inform with life one submicroscopic particle of matter, found within his grasp the power to destroy creation...