Word: shocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
...rare form of uranium (U 235), which he bombarded with a stream of neutrons. The explosion which occurred when the uranium atom finally split was, proportionately, the greatest man-made blast in history; it released 200 million electron-volts. But because the source and volume were so small, the shock was not enough to knock a fly off the wall. As war overtook the world, the problem of releasing atomic energy in quantity, as for a bomb, still remained unsolved...
Most businessmen had long thought that the military strategy of beating Germany first was also an aid to reconversion: war orders for the Japanese war would cushion the shock of going back to peacetime. But in recent weeks they have found that the period of grace after V-E day was a hindrance rather than a help to transition. Last week the monthly letter of the National City Bank of New York said...
...other hand, if war should be terminated at once, problems that are now acute ... would be rapidly solved. ... The shock would be more severe and the recession temporarily greater. But reconversion would be more rapid...
...Year After V-J Day. As N.C.B. suggested, the jolt from a sudden collapse of war work might not be as painful as most people have feared. Industry has prepared its own shock absorber. According to an industry-wide survey made by the Department of Commerce, U.S. manufacturers plan to spend some $4.5 billion for plant expansion during 1946. Expenditures by public-utility companies and the railroads may reach $1.5 billion. More than that, industry plans to pump out $2.8 billion to restock its depleted inventories of non-military goods. Civilians may spend as much as $100 billion for goods...