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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balance of the Bomb. When Omar Bradley finished his biting, indignant statement there was stunned silence in the committee room. In charging head down into the middle of the scrimmage he had given a final, climactic exhibition of the unseemly personal antagonisms which had split the nation's military chiefs. From a military standpoint he had all but blasted the Navy admirals' case. And before the week was out, torpedoed by the testimony of other non-Navy men, the Navy's arguments were little more than just afloat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Incorrigible & Indomitable | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Said Vandenberg: the nation had to "counterbalance the potential enemy's masses of ground troops . . . No such balancing factor exists other than strategic bombing, including the atomic bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Incorrigible & Indomitable | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...thousands who celebrated the day, it did not seem funny at all. For at 90, John Dewey was still the nation's most noted living philosopher, who had perhaps had more influence on 20th Century America than any other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Perpetual Arriver | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...with one of the lowest VD rates of any nation (Scandinavian countries are lower), loses $100 million a year in industry man-days because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: WHO v. VD | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...ahead and I said OK I won't cry, and if some of your peddlers get shot by local citizens . . . don't you cry, he said oh well I'll put a big black circle around Wharton county and work the rest of the state and nation. I told him good by, and he left mad, and I was glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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