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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ardently pro-atom U.S. Army was mum on the professor's suggestion. If it does lend its B-29s, the U.S. public will probably not be told about it. And if an experiment succeeds in setting up a chain reaction, it is possible that no living thing will be around to applaud.* For, if the scientists ever succeed in pulling the trigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: They Know It's Loaded | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

James Roosevelt, lately of the Marines, who has kept mum on his postwar plans except to say that he has no political ambitions, took over as head of the Los Angeles County Democratic Committee's subcommittee on veterans' affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Elevations | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Larry Bell's new streamlined helicopter will carry five people. But on all other details he was mum. Although the Civil Aeronautics Board has yet to approve it, Bell is confidently tooling up for volume production. By the first of the year, he hopes to start production of his first 500 helicopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Boom Is On | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

General George S. Patton Jr. had kept mum for quite a while. It was unlike him. Last week, in Bavaria, where he is U.S. military governor, he broke the irksome silence, brandished his riding crop and informed the press: "Well, I'll tell you. This Nazi thing. It's just like a Democratic-Republican election fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patton & the Devil | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

First Assault. Which automobile company would be the target for this all-out assault? For a day, the union kept mum on its choice. Then wily, redheaded Walter Philip Reuther, U.A.W. Vice President announced the first objective: General Motors Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The First Target | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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