Word: enola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
DIED. Robert A. Lewis, 65, co-pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay on its August 1945 mission to drop the atom bomb over Hiroshima; of a heart attack; in Smithfield, Va. A test pilot of the then new B29, he was chosen because he was known to be cool under stress, though watching the blast he said, "My God, what have we done!" Lewis kept a private record of the flight, which he later sold for $37,000. "If I live a hundred years," he wrote, "I'll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind...
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...later Mi-tsui's archrival, Mitsubishi's Agrex Inc., boosted its own U.S. grain-trade investment by buying out Koppel Inc., the company's American partner, thereby becoming sole owner of a giant export elevator in Long Beach, Calif., along with elevators in Salina, Kans., and Enola, Neb. Other Japanese firms with U.S. grain-handling interests include Zen-Noh, a cooperative that is building an $88 million terminal outside New Orleans...