Word: reportedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BATTLE REPORT: VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC (548 pp.)-Walter Karig-Rinehart...
...York University was not alone. A special curriculum committee set up by New York City's Board of Education had also been wondering about comic books, In its last report, the committee cautiously recommended that New York teachers begin to look into them as a possible "educational device for the slow learners...
...National Security Resources Board wanted to know what an atom-bomb attack would do to the city of Washington. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission was ready with an answer. The report did not make pleasant reading for Washingtonians or for the inhabitants of any city that is a worthwhile target...
...does not agree with the theory-advanced by a Navy witness in the Congressional hearings on the Navy's revolt against unification-that atom bombs are not so destructive. They are extremely destructive, said the AEC report. The report considered only the effects of bombs like the one exploded at 1,800 feet over Hiroshima. Better bombs have been built, but the old ones were effective enough to make the AEC's case...
With Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific, Captain Karig and his assistants have finished their five-volume stint. Like the other four, Victory moves at the brisk pace of journalism, seldom pauses for reflection or criticism. Its eyewitness reports of the Pacific slugging match are graphic, often moving; but except for interpolations of hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle...