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...about 1:30 in the morning on the 9th, we gathered at the Bockscar, and [Major Charles] Sweeney [the pilot] and the flight engineer ran through the preflight tests. The engineer discovered that the transfer pumps, which transfer gasoline from the reserve tank into the main tanks, weren't working. There was 600 gal. of gasoline there, but we wouldn't have access to it. But Tibbets told him, "You don't need that gas, so there's no reason to delay this...
...basically, I was in charge of the bomb. We flew to the rendezvous point, where we'd meet two other airplanes one with instruments to measure the blast and another holding observers. The observer plane didn't show up. We circled, and after about 35 minutes, I said to Sweeney, "Damn it, proceed to the first target...
...counterparts in other countries to let interest rates decline. That development sparked a long-running bull market on stock exchanges from Wall Street to Tokyo. And when oil prices went into a steep decline over the past three months, the boom machine shifted into high gear. Says James Sweeney, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University: "We see a significant number of happy events...
With a 3-0 defeat of Sweeney foe NJIT the following day, Harvard clinched the division title with over a month left in the regular season...
...with the merger of the Hay and the Sweeney divisions next year, the parity in the EIVA conference will only increase...