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...lidless, almost completely enclosed hot-water kettle which looks like an inverted mushroom...
...State Department." When the U.S. wanted to make a show of force in the Mediterranean, it used the Navy (TIME, Sept. 30). The volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
...silence, peace's little men watched the instantaneous, incredible mushroom, the dark spurts of universal power, the shimmering bright column of the stem, the wall of ship-engulfing water. In silence, they left the theater...
...proud carrier Saratoga, 800 yards away, remained in sight for about two seconds. The geyser of water almost touched her starboard side. Then spray blotted her from view. The geyser spurted up to 5,000 feet and there gave birth to the familiar mushroom-shaped cloud which rose 4,000 feet more...
When nonscheduled airlines began to mushroom all over the U.S., airmen predicted that most of the new companies would stay in business only until the Civil Aeronautics Board wielded its regulatory ax (TIME, Feb. 18). Last week the ax fell. Before CAB stops swinging, 95% of the nonscheduled fliers may be grounded...