Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious moments, V.F.W. members crammed into Boston Arena to cast votes for: 1) old-age pensions for World War I veterans, 2) keeping the atomic bomb secret; against: 1) increased immigration, 2) Communists on the ballot, 3) taking a stand on merger of the armed services. As their next national commander the veterans chose Oregon's Louis E. Starr, 48, World War I infantryman, Portland lawyer. World War II veterans failed to win a major national office...
...Josip Broz suddenly emerged from the fog as Tito the Partisan, who fiercely fought Germans (as well as non-Communist Yugoslavs who followed the late General Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than anyone else in his time...
Behind the thin camouflage of a pseudo-liberal constitution and a National Front Government, Proconsul Tito shaped the government of the South Slav lands into a model Communist police state. His NKVD-trained secret police force, OZNA (Committee for the Protection of the People), together with the Partisans, has liquidated an estimated 200,000 people and imprisoned an estimated 100,000. It has established agents in all Balkan countries and Italy. OZNA is headed by able, notoriously cruel Lieut. General Alexander ("Marko") Rankovich, 35, former journeyman tailor and veteran Communist...
Such developments had been long predicted, but usually by freewheeling prophets or Buck Rogers artists who ignored an obvious deficiency: power supply. No known fuel contained enough chemical energy to lift a useful payload above the atmosphere. But new knowledge of the possibilities of atomic power (details secret) has changed all that...
...miles before striking the earth. The A10, even more ambitious, was a composite rocket, weighing 85 tons. Part would drop off at 15 miles up, allowing the remainder, an A9, to reach an altitude of 165 miles. Theoretical range: 3,500 miles. The German A14 was still secret last week, which might mean that either the U.S. or Russia does not have its details...