Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cold December night in 1773, John Hicks let himself out of his second story bedroom window by a sheet rope. He was off to join a band of "Indians" in filling Boston Harbor with tea, and could not let his Tory son know of the plot. The staircase creaked even then...
...March 1949 the Pennsylvania declared it bankrupt and said it was on its own. A few months later, the Nassau County Transit Commission charged that the Pennsylvania had systematically milked its subsidiary. It charged that: for the L.I.'s tugs and barges to move freight across New York Harbor, the Pennsy paid the L.I. only 35? a ton, collected as much as $1.10 from shippers; the Pennsy and the N.Y., N.H. & H. used some eleven miles of Long Island tracks, paid only half of what the fee should have been; the Pennsy leased the Long Island's Wheelspur...
Three Came Home (20th Century-Fox). A month after Pearl Harbor, U.S.-born Author Agnes Newton Keith, wife of a British colonial official, became a prisoner of the Japanese in North Borneo. Out of her three-year ordeal, she wrote a bestselling factual account of how she and her two-year-old son fared in tropical prison camps until liberation reunited them with the husband whom the Japanese had imprisoned near by. As a movie, done with reasonable fidelity to the book, it is often as harrowing, moving-and sometimes as monotonous-as what the war did to the Keiths...
Take Denmark, suggested Professor Urey. If Russia wanted to persuade Denmark to resign from the North Atlantic pact, he said, it could simply slip a tramp ship into Copenhagen harbor with an a-bomb in the hold. At the right psychological moment, the word could be passed to the Danes at their capital was on the verge of being blown up. "If this sort of thing happens in Europe," said Urey, "it is going to be increasingly difficult to keep these people in the Atlantic pact and there will be perhaps a serious move to alienate the members . . . before this...
...pound of fissioning uranium, and very large quantities can be used. Uranium bombs must not be too big or they will explode spontaneously. Hydrogen bombs would suffer from no such limit. Theoretically, a single bomb filling a whole ship could be exploded in an unsuspecting enemy's harbor. Such an explosion would rank as an astronomical event...