Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enterprise. Harry Truman wanted wartime controls relaxed as quickly as possible, although he injected a note of caution. He wanted a single head for the struggling three-man Surplus Property Board. He wanted war contracts canceled and settled soon, war plants cleared so that peacetime production can get up steam...
...Boom? That there is a rip roaring building boom in the making was plain to everyone. But it was equally plain that a sudden rise in prices would take the steam out of the boom. Armed with the latest and one of the most comprehensive of building surveys, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM drove that point home this week. The FORUM found that 2,778,000 families are "good prospects" to buy or build houses. Some 70% of them plan to spend less than $8,000 and more than half of them have the cash in the bank or in War Bonds...
Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound of Zeus" tearing from Prometheus' liver the price of fire...
...world ready for the new step forward? It was never ready. It was, in fact, still fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. The kindly physicists handed plain people (like Harry Truman and Clement Attlee) the fissioned atom,.and said: You have to decide who owns it; who can kill whom with it, and under what circumstances. How fast is it to be developed? Certainly, it will change the world. You have to make laws...
...world, the harnessing of atomic power carried the explosive implications of an industrial revolution, perhaps more significant for the future than the harnessing of steam or electricity, or the invention of the internal-combustion engine had been in the past. But that future might be many years distant. Atomic energy, President Truman said, cannot now be produced on a basis to compete with coal, oil and falling water. Said the President: "There must be a long period of intensive research...