Word: protectionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ben Wyatt talked. In simple words, with eloquent gestures, he told Juda and his people of the Bomb. Its power to kill all living things within many miles was beyond belief. But "the U.S. wants to turn this great destructive power into something good for mankind." The Bomb would be...
To many another big-city landlord, selling cooperative apartments looked like the best way yet discovered to 1) cash in on the housing shortage and 2) keep out of trouble with OPA. Even tenants who already had apartments were not safe from the new scheme. In fact, many a landlord...
Helen McCloskey, secretary in charge of book refunds to Wilbur J. Bender '27. The Counsellor for Veterans, stated last week that no unfairness was intended in the original regulations. "In fact," she said, "it was for the protection of the government and the men."
Rats on the Bridge. On that day, the ships in Bikini Lagoon will be manned by "guinea pig" crews: 200 goats, 200 pigs, 4,000 white rats. They will wait their fate in the same positions which a human crew would occupy in battle stations: rats in the turrets, on...
Now members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan...