Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, a civil engineer constructed a model of the Empire State building to show that the only hope for the city's skyscrapers was to dig a hole under each and, during an atomic raid, lower them into the earth by elevator...
Errors in Strategy. Allied air strategists made mistakes, according to the D'Olier board. One was the attempt to penetrate the depths of Germany with unescorted bombers, the costliest example of which was the Oct. 14, 1943 raid on the Schweinfurt ballbearing plants. General Henry Arnold claimed at the time that the results were worth the cost (60 heavy bombers destroyed, many damaged beyond repair), but the survey found "no evidence that the attacks on the ballbearing industry had any measurable effect on essential war production...
...Senator asked him if it were true that one raid on U.S. cities could kill 40 million Americans. Said Oppenheimer: "I am afraid it is." He also suggested that in the long run the bomb would weaken, not strengthen, the U.S.'s military and international position. His reasoning: "The advent of atomic weapons has perhaps weakened the general military position of the United States, because we are a concentrated and highly industrialized nation. Atomic weapons ten or 20 years from now will be very cheap...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...
...connoisseurs of human frailty, San Francisco's cops were not surprised to find that morals deteriorate in wartime. Last week they found another instance. In a raid on a house run by one Inez Burns they found three operating rooms equipped for abortions, and plenty of evidence that the establishment plied a rushing business. The day after they raided the place, 15 women telephoned for appointments. A little later they discovered an even more startling item-a cache of $285,000 which Inez Burns had accumulated since...