Word: enola
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Nuclear arms production began 32 years ago when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped a 15-kiloton atomic device on Hiroshima. Prior to this, the largest bomb developed had been the "blockbuster," so named because it was capable of devastating an entire city block. The Hiroshima bomb had a destructive force equivalent to 1300-2000 blockbusters and the one A-bomb virtually pulverized a city of more than 300,000 inhabitants. When President Truman heard the news, he said: "This is the greatest thing in history...
...Enola Gay, Thomas & Witts
Early last Thursday morning, freight train B-6 from Enola, Pa., rumbled through a steady drizzle into position at the big Potomac switching yard south of Washington. "Just another working day," said Conductor Carroll Dikeman as he headed home. Well, not quite. Train B-6-along with nearly half of the other trains and 17,000 miles of track in 16 Northeastern and Midwestern states-had just become the property of the Consolidated Rail Corp., a Government-sponsored private company. ConRail's birth marks the largest corporate reorganization ever...
...family is right out of The Grapes of Wrath," Knight says. She was raised in the tiny town of Mitchell, Kans. Shirley Enola got her early education in a one-room schoolhouse. Her Oklahoma-born father was the only one in his family to finish grade school, but unlike Pa Joad of Steinbeck's novel, he finally made it big−in oil. Shirley is proud: "He supports everybody in sight now. He has two Lincoln Continentals and a mobile home parked in his driveway...
...many of the present inhabitants were not born when the white flash blinded the city. But they still gather to remember. Some 40,000 assembled last week in the peace park, and at 8:15 a.m.-the hour at which the whale-shaped bomb dropped from the Enola Gay-a bell tolled to signal a moment of silent prayer. Men and women wept...