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ATOMIC WEAPONS: Still supersecret, but Wilson reported "striking advances." Said he: "Atomic bombs considerably improved over those used in World War II are being produced on an industrial basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Half Speed Ahead | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...final settlement of the Korean war. It had not been taken up with him, said the President. General MacArthur was making a broadcast asking the Koreans to surrender . . . At the mention of the broadcast, the presidential staff gasped in unison; the surrender speech was still two days off and supersecret. Hurriedly, Harry Truman grabbed for the ball. The newsmen would have to keep the matter of the surrender terms off the record, said he, until MacArthur delivered his speech, which he did at week's end (see WAR IN ASIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Just Cruising Along | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...fairly clear she understands that it's true what she's been hearing and thinking about Alan, but it's too late. However, a nearby horse comes to her rescue and tramples Alan to death, leaving the way clear for Michael to take over. (Oops, there goes the "supersecret" ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

Last week Torontonians were startled to learn that Casa Loma had been the hush-hushest of all Canadian war plants. In 1942, when the Germans bombed out an English plant making supersecret sonic submarine detectors, the British Admiralty picked the engineering works of William Gorman, in Toronto, to do the job. Bill Corman picked an unlikely spot: the huge Casa Loma's stables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Stable Sonics | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

...exclusive distribution rights to 250 key products manufactured by 70-odd U.S. firms, had sold motors, electric trolleys, machine tools, steel buildings with a careful hand. Tirelessly the Hunt fingers had probed every phase of Chinese commercial life, often turned up in a competitor's eye. So supersecret were his operations that new employes got a stiff liquor-holding test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Long Time No See | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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