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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal involvement, were inclined to grin, but not the Federal Civil Defense Administration, which also had bomb shelters on its mind. The FCDA, not yet as sure of its plans as Mrs. Heiberg, announced last week that it planned to provide bomb shelters for 50 million people in critical target areas. For that purpose alone, it proposed to spend $2 billion of the $3.1 billion it had requested from Congress. The FCDA said it would foot 54% of the bill for the shelters, hoped the balance would be paid by state and local governments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL DEFENSE: A Place to Hide | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were by no means obsolete, but they were faced with a formidable new obstacle. Amphibious landings on the World War II model required vast supply dumps in ports or beachheads which would present an irresistible target to an enemy with the atomic bomb. Said General Omar Bradley, not long ago: "The atomic bomb, properly delivered, almost precludes . . . another amphibious operation like the one in Normandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: The Moving Man | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...radio production, Swanson and his partners scraped up enough cash to start another entirely separate company at Bangor, Mich. ("out of the high tax and labor shortage area"). There they started to produce for war. They manufactured such war goods as radio crystals and control units for target planes and eventually became one of the Signal Corps' biggest suppliers. At war's end, Swanson hopped into the rapidly expanding television industry, and opened a Los Angeles plant to produce tuners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tuner Titan | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Chicago, former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, in a desultory match, over a slug-footed target named Cesar Brion, Argentine champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...Harvard students haven't seen a class all term; others burn midnight oil. But almost all Yalies hit the middle road. The same comparison holds in politics; there are no "Communist-front" clubs in New Haven. The ideal of all Eli students is a single mythical "Yale Man," the target of almost everyone's aspirations. The Yale Man must be a success and he must be all-round: athletes are not admired unless they are good in other lines. There is much more pride behind the words "I am a Yale man" than behind "I am a Harvard...

Author: By John J. Back, Edward J. Coughlin, and Rudolph Kass, S | Title: Yale: for God, Country, and Success | 11/25/1950 | See Source »

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