Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but...
Two others, Welfare Minister Chikahiko Koizumi and Education Minister Kunihiko Hashida of Tojo's Pearl Harbor Cabinet (and four unlisted officials) succeeded in killing themselves. Admiral Shigetaro Shimada told a nervous U.S. officer: "Be quiet-I don't suicide." Many surrendered voluntarily, either to U.S. officers or Japanese...
From the first, Mowrer had the feeling -not widely shared by far-off U.S. editors -that Europe was a real and important place. He dutifully interviewed Chicagoans who came to play in Paris, learned to duck when they wanted a French-speaking guide to the brothels. In 1911, he got...
Since the atom bomb hit Hiroshima, Jap reports have played on the U.S. conscience with reports of weird, agonized deaths of civilians who had appeared untouched by the explosion (see MEDICINE). The plain implication: radioactivity from the bombs would go on killing men and vegetation in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for...