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...Congressional committees. Others made statements to the press. Columbia's Dr. Harold C. Urey discoverer of heavy hydrogen, favored a worldwide ban on the manufacture of atomic weapons. Dr. Herbert L. Anderson, who worked on the bomb, feared that the May-Johnson bill's security provision would frighten scientists away from all nuclear research. Famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton had similar objections. The scientists' main worries were...
Said the Führer: "I just wanted to frighten Schuschnigg...
...Appalling Power. The air war was already going well. The Japs were reduced to drawing charms in the sand to frighten "evil spirits" away from the homeland (see cut). For weeks Japanese opposition had been dwindling-and LeMay's striking power had been increasing. Even as "The Cigar" moved his office, his bombers were returning from their biggest LeMay-conceived mission up to that time: 822 Superfortresses had gone out to lay a vast net of mines and to bomb four Japanese cities (pop. 66,000 to 127,000). Only one was lost. The big planes carried...
...neighborhood toughs greeted the new vicar of St. Luke's Episcopal Chapel with sneering hostility. They tried to frighten him off the sidewalks with raucous taunts about his celibacy. They hooted at the black cassock and big wooden cross he always wore as a member of the Society of Oblates of Mount Calvary. They sneaked into the parish house when his back was turned and smashed up the furniture. But tall, handsome Reverend Edward Henry Schlueter (rhymes with Peter) kept his stubborn smile and quietly got on with the job: bringing back to life his broken-down appendage...
They did not frighten off the Brazilian Government, which last week was still trying, by dropping manufactured goods from airplanes, to rouse in the Chavantes a yearning for civilization...