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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking to American architects in Houston, Tex., Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, Navy director of atomic defense, tore into the argument that men and cities should go underground to escape the terrors of the atomic age. Like an over-armored destroyer, said Parsons, overprotected cities would find themselves "safe" but paralyzed...
What to do? Just go on living, building, and waiting in tranquillity. Conventional protection against old-fashioned disasters like "tornadoes, fires and earthquakes" would do some good. "The sound approach," said Rear Admiral Parsons, "is to add atomic blast and radiation flash to the list of natural and man-made catastrophes which may at some time be encountered ... If we look ahead five or ten years we must consider the possibility of encountering atomic blast. This possibility may for some places be so small that it can be neglected. We should make every effort to add atomic facts of life...
...stoic admiral added: "There is nothing unusual about such a compromise with fate. We make these decisions each time we ride in a taxicab or go skating or skiing...
...from to replace capital equipment as it wears out? Less & less of it will come from investment by the gradually impoverished middle class, and this will certainly not be balanced by more & more capital investment from the rising working class. The new income of the working class will not go into capital goods; it will go into more milk, more education, more dentures...
Further assurance that the U.S. was in an unhappy way came from Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet consul general in New York, who was invited by the U.S. to go home last August after Oksana Kasenkina jumped from his consulate window. Now chief of the Soviet Foreign Office press section, Lomakin turned up for Foreign Minister Vishinsky's first official reception last week in an expansive mood. To foreign correspondents he declared that the U.S. maintains "the world's worst censorship." He went on to explain that the U.S. press is controlled by at least three sets...