Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highest price the U.S. had ever paid for its security in peacetime-almost four times Franklin Roosevelt's entire first budget. But far from trying to trim it down, the U.S. House of Representatives last week added a few hundred millions of dollars to what President Truman had asked. Then with a heavy sense of urgency, some sane and some not-so-sane oratory, and a frank admission of helplessness, the House approved the record $15.9 billion defense bill...
First jayvees: Wells, stroke; MacTaggart, 7; Roosevelt, 6; Decker, 5; Marston, 4; Barnhill, 3; Bolman, 2; Watson, bow; Chadwick...
...said 'yes', and the Atomic Age was born at that moment." Roosevelt goes on to tell of Conant's jobs on the Top Policy Group in charge of atomic energy, his administrative work on the Manhattan project, and his emotional reaction to the New Mexico test of the bomb, which he watched huddled face down in a trench with his associates, "violently intense...
...went to Conant; Roosevelt describes him as "a physically unobtrusives sort of man...painters have seized his two most distinctive features--a wide mobile month and long-fingered, sensitive hands--and distorted them for emphasis. Only a few photographers have been able to get representative and impressive pictures...
...number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped to his feet, Roosevelt states, and sternly exclaimed that this was no joking matter." American scientists had done a great job in winning the war...now we must develop atomic energy for peace." Then he raised his glass. "Here's to Professor Conant...