Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starvation and death of several million Europeans is more to be desired than our contribution of $400 million to an international relief fund which would be used to fatten up the Balkan armies so they might be in a position to spit on us and thus start World War III...
...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...
Inevitably, the sound of World War II echoed loud through the year's biography and history, though marketwise publishers insisted that readers were sick & tired of the war. In nonfiction, the Civil War was still the favorite battleground of the antiquarians-and the prospective horrors of World War III was the stock in trade of most special pleaders, who now blatantly showed the name of the only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them...
...specter of World War III was conjured up by writer after writer on the atomic bomb, notably John Hersey in the laconic, harrowing Hiroshima; and also by the New Yorker's E. B. White in his earnest tract, The Wild Flag; by Sumner Welles in Where Are We Heading?; by a long series of pro-or anti-Soviet special pleaders. Probably the standout pro-Soviet pleading of the year was Soviet Politics by Williams Professor Frederick L. Schuman. The most widely read (75,000 copies) attack: I Chose Freedom, by disillusioned Soviet functionary Victor Kravchenko...
...that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World War III...