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...members of the mission, with growing uneasiness, were privately applying their knowledge to U.S. cities, to see how they would withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could...
...Solutions. First of all he had plenty of cash in the company's till. He had a vast empire of 21 major manufacturing and assembly plants, 15 ships, 400,000 acres of timber and mining property, geared into one of the world's greatest production machines. The war had shown what it could do. In five years, it had rolled out the whopping sum of $4 billion in planes, engines, trucks, jeeps and multitudinous weapons...
...will be Washington's poker-playing, New Dealing Governor Mon C. Wallgren. Wallgren is already getting the welcome mat out at the governor's mansion. Said he: "The suite that Truman occupied will be redone to suit Charlie's personality. After all, this is the greatest timber state in the Union...
William Braden made a point of taking his family wherever he went. When schools were scarce, Spruille's mother tutored him. At 16 he entered Yale's Sheffield Scientific School, took a year off to mine, cut timber and slush about the oilfields of the West, then graduated at 20. Yale knew "Fat" Braden as an All-America goal in water polo, and as a discriminating but notable eater. His class annual characterized him: "He hath eaten me out of house and home." His mother later said that the English language, as perfected at Yale and spoken...
Died. Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser (pronounced Warehouser), 72, youngest son of the founder of the vast Northwest lumber empire (Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.), who became its president, expanded it geographically and financially, modernized its sales tactics, became one of the nation's wealthiest men; of pneumonia; in St. Paul. In 1935 the comparatively unpublicized Weyerhaeuser name became front-page news when F. E.'s grandnephew George was kidnapped and ransomed...