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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft was also battling a rising tide in Lilienthal's favor. All last week a flood of witnesses appeared before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast...
...horse-track touts, drug peddlers and plain tourists who winter in Cuba were reading the Broadway columns with closer interest. Every now & then they found a nice little item about "Lucky" Luciano, and in Havana it was pretty common knowledge that Lucky was wintering in Cuba...
...more loathsome than that of a new degree requirement. Yet in the General Education program a quite drastic, closely related change is being effected without strong, opposition simply because it makes sense. The sense to a requirement of a knowledge of the large out lines of World History is plain too if only on the level that it can help stave off unnecessary war hysteria. In this connection, a recent study-also made at Princeton-found that "30 million Americans of voting age had no idea at all of Russia's form of government." Despite the special...
...winter (as had some politicians before him in comparable situations). He then made a serious political error as well as a bad bet: he kept his gamble to himself. Had he put the choice up to the House of Commons and the country, perhaps a majority of politicians and plain citizens would have gone along with him. After all, the alternative was a winter of fuel rationing and curtailed production; Britons had had a bellyful of such austerity. When his gamble did not come off, Shinwell had no plan to meet the emergency...
...Navy had not flown far inland. The blank space beyond the South Pole was still the haziest, most mysterious area on anyone's map. It might be a featureless ice plain or it might be ridged with peaks higher than Mt. XRay...