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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...
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...
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