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"National Disaster." President Truman, warning the people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared...
All this and more could be forecast, but so far, the Manhattan Project is grimly guarding its piles, and burying their products underground.
In the open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami...
During the war the U.S. had been able to use its grain "wastefully," i.e., convert it into meat instead of feeding it directly to humans, because of its vast stockpiles. Now that the piles were depleted, the U.S. could no longer afford such waste. If the U.S. meant business, it...
But the farmers had learned a few new tricks during the bumper years: they had planted shelter belts of trees, cultivated on the contour, tilled scientifically to stop wind erosion, and left soil-holding trash on their land. Drawing on ingenuity and junk piles, local blacksmiths had turned out terracing...