Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On April 1, 1946, unannounced 45-ft. waves from an earthquake in the Aleutians area brought death and destruction to the Hilo region. This time, Hawaii was ready. Police swiftly called out all off-duty officers and reserves. Radio stations began transmitting bulletins every few minutes. In Pearl Harbor, naval...
The Task Ahead. Intellectuals aside, the vote for Eisenhower suggests that, despite the relative bitterness of campaign oratory, the U.S. is more genuinely united behind the President-elect than it has been for many years. Few Presidents in U.S. history have had so clear a mandate from so many divergent...
2. Destruction of locusts under the Point 4 program.
The Soviet Plan. Before an audience of 2,500 in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Eisenhower, erect and spruce in white tie & tails, began by analyzing Joseph Stalin's recent pronouncement on the state of world Communism (TIME, Oct. 13). The destruction of "imperialism" (i.e., the democratic powers) is...
The first post-office cats were hired in 1868 when London Postmaster Frederick-Roger Jackson, worried over "very serious destruction and mutilation of paid money orders," became "emboldened to suggest that three cats be acquired to deal with mice in my department." The postmaster general reluctantly agreed to lay on...